Well, we had another little interesting and frustrating adventure as we were trying to get off the train this morning here in Varanasi!

As a precaution even for non-tourists traveling on trains in India, it is advised to lock your luggage up so no one can steal it. Well, as most luggage locks are nowadays, they require a special code you set yourself so only you can open it. Well, in the confusion of trying to lock up our luggage and pay for the train tickets in the dark, we accidentally reset the luggage lock combination!

So, this morning when we woke up and were getting ready to get off the train, we realized what we had done. We first tried cutting the lock cable loose from my luggage handles with the
not-so-sturdy scissors we retrieved from our first aid kit, I ended up breaking those.
Then, we had to finally retrieve a knife from the car porter and cut my luggage straps off the lock, instead of the other way around. We then left the lock sitting under our seat on the train still holding onto the straps the train provided to attach our luggage to in the first place, and we walked off the train, dismembered luggage in hand!