The holiday hasn’t even begun and I’ve had a drama.
 

Last night I received an email from Faith, at the travel agency in India.

She advised me that my connection between Mumbai and Kerala had been brought forward by an hour, so instead of having three hours between my international flight and the connection, I now had only two hours.

Apparently, this sort of thing happens all the time in India....

Flights are cancelled, delayed and brought forward all on a whim. Changes were also made to the next two internal flights I was making in India. However, this was the one that had the potential to give me a nervous breakdown.

I was travelling to India to recuperate and already I was having a serious blood pressure moment!

I had a total freak out. Imagine getting off the plane and racing across to the luggage carousel, then trying to charge through customs and then flying around looking for the shuttle to the national airport - and all in the heat of INDIA and all in two hours!

And dragging along my dear old mum to boot!!!

I have fond memories of very long queues at Sydney Airport and happy hours hanging around carousels there. I'm absolutely positive that everything takes longer in India anyway.

Furthermore, I couldn’t be sure that my Singapore Airlines flight would even arrive on time.

However, Faith was wonderful. She rang the airline (the ticket was a non-refundable ticket) and got half the money back for me and booked me on a different airline about 4 hours later. 

Wasn't that a relief?

I had visions of spending the night on the streets of Mumbai while I waited for the next plane to leave!!!

I wonder wait to see what will be thrown at me next.

love Roslyn