Thursday, 24 May 2012

Please don't ask me what time of day it is as I don't have a clue!! We are still working on British time for Bevs pills but local time for flights! We are so glad to be sat in this grotty little airport in Channi, India. Not many seats only one sweet shop and no duty free!!!! But as I said we are glade to be here! We arrived at Delhi airport after a rough and sleepless night. Two weeks ago the tour operator changed the flight, not London to delhi then on to Sri Lanka, no they changed it to include another stop in "lovely channi". 3flights in 26 hours (did not draw to much attention of this to bev, he was on a need to know basis.!) When we arrived in Delhi we were told that the flight to Channi was internal so we would have to go through customes, collect our bags then go to internal terminal to get the connecting flight. Easy you may think with 4 hours stop over! Oh no we could not go through customs because we did not have a blasted visa to cross the line to go from one terminal to another!! Have you ever watch the airport program's on tv? That was us!! We were give the choice, back to London or buy another ticket to sri Lanka??? 4 hours later and only moving from one lounge to another. At least 30"officials" standing around trying to decide what to do wil this shaky man in a wheel chair and an irate woman who said London is not an option. The cost off a flight was £1000.00!!! But there wasn't anY seats available anyway!!.Finally 2 hour later an only one helpfully woman from BA (with a BA to start with, until I told her not to talk down to me) she worked wonders and talked the airport manager into issuing us with a 3 day visa, this also took 2 hours so they held the plane up for us, (30 mins)arrived in Sri Lanka safe and sound but no car to pick us up!! Next stop to bollok the tour company.

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