Bon Voyage

Back from India! Well, when I wrote "I expect delays at the airport here as snow fell again during the night" before I set off, I was not to know that the snow in Europe would be the least of my travel worries. How about arriving back 26 hours late ? How about having to divert into Dubai because a passenger was ill and having the locals keep us, without explanation, on the runway for almost 6 hours ? How about having to spend the night in Cyprus after that because the crew's air-hours had run out ? How about... oh forget it, let's just say it was a nightmare. Anyway, not to dwell, we saw eight of the ten potential woodpecker species in the Western Ghats in Goa State. In the next few days I will post about these...