vrijdag 2 oktober 2009

Goa, full moon parties and getting a tan

Today, Sue and I went to Goa.
Today, Sue and I came back from Goa.

A short write up of the events of the day (Friday):

Leaving proved to be a bit of a hurdle.
Wrap up meeting with CDS (world wide exchange of presents from Canada, Mexico, Hungary, the US, South Korea, India, even flowers from Clai!!!- and quick goodbyes, cause they're better than the long ones) - call from Shaileish, our travel agent and beacon in citytrippin across India: Goa tickets booked, flight leaving in about 2 hours. Hmm.
That was our cue for an attempt at breaking the world record "packing, checking out and printing tickets in under an hour".

We somehow managed to get on the wrong shuttle from the airport to the plane (trust me, it's easy) and almost boarded a flight to Ahmedabad. We would've been better of getting on that one. More on that later.

Back on the right flight, we were supposed to be in for an uneventful one hour flight. Easy.
3 hours later we were still in the turbulent skies, without a word of explanation.
Planning is not something you do in India so we're used to things not exactly happening the way you thought they would so, hey, you won't hear me questioning anything!
All of a sudden, panic on board, running stewards, pilot asking for a doctor (and not exactly in a very calm way): medical emergency.
Luckily India's filled with brilliant doctors and we happened to have one on board.
We're not quite sure what happened cause the crew didn't bother mentioning whether or not the person had moved onto the next life meanwhile.
Next announcement of the day, coming to you live from the cockpit:
Ladies & Gentlemen, we might not be able to land in Goa due to the weather circumstances.
We still have enough fuel however to make it back to Mumbai (hmm, reassuring) so, more news to follow.
Another 1/2 hour later, we were told we were indeed going back to Mumbai...

When we hit the ground (Mumbai), they didn't let us off the plane. They had the evil plan to quietly refuel and secretly send us back to Goa anyway.
After 20 minutes and some protest from people wanting to get off, we were "released".
Our bags however weren't.
The idea was still to make the plane leave again which the Goan passengers/regulars told us wouldn't happen anyway.
This way they wouldn't have to refund the tickets.

We asked for a refund AND our bags.

We spent another hour at the airport trying to get tickets to get us out of Mumbai but to no avail. After declining about 42 taxi drivers ready to take us to Pune (one guy overheard us saying we might take a driver and car to go there and of course, the word on taxi street was out...) we hopped onto a rick. All sticky, tired and another day older, we were back to square one: Mumbai.

Stuck.

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