Now what's that phrase...? All the best laid plans...

Here I sit, not on a Boeing 747 India bound but in the Terrace Lounge at Heathrow - ready to travel to Bangkok, not Mumbai. To cut a long story short Jen was up all night with a rather dicky tummy, and, although she struggled through a 45 min flight from Manchester, there was no way on earth that she would have made 9 hours to Mumbai at 10 this morning. So, BA (who were so extremely helpful - I cannot say how helpful they have been) tried to get us on another India flight tomorrow but all of them (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata) were all fully booked with a huge stand-by list. There is a religious festival on at the moment and thus these planes are full for at least the next week. We then tried to get on a Qantas flight to Bangkok (cutting our losses) tomorrow but that too was full so the only option is tonight - 10pm to Bangkok. Well, it's goodbye to India before we've even met her - what a shame. How ironic that Jen got 'Delhi Belly' before we even got near to the city itself.

To be honest I think we are both quite relieved as it means we can spend more time in SEA/China which we wanted to do - we may even be able to get a cheap flight to Japan now.

So - scratch the itinery - India is no more - Bangkok here we come!!