Midnight Train To Gaborone Blues

The record ticket sales though, come as a great challenge as the public rail fleet operator is failing to deal with the demand. Economy tickets run out about five days in advance and so do the elite classes, thus leaving one with the club option - the cheapest traveller's nightmare. Simply, the good ol' train days seem past us.

Standing at the edge of the platform, they keep tussling even before the train arrives. As its one eye breaks out the noise escalates; some cry out for their babies getting squashed, the occasional rubble rouser screaming and whistling for the sheer fun of it. All are sweaty and the one who eventually boards has to deeply sigh in disbelief that they made it.