Homewards

A six hour train journey, that took over seven, sees our return to Kochi for one night. Our (new) driver isn’t there to meet us, so we take another “auto” to our hotel, to find out we’ve been booked into the adjacent, sister hotel. No biggy. The sister has a cafe that’s open til 23.30, so we have some spicy food before going to bed. It’s midnight & we have to get up in 90 minutes to be driven to the airport to catch the 04.50 flight to Bahrain, thence to Heathrow.

Meanwhile, the errant driver – he says he was outside the other exit from the station – turned up & we persuade him we don’t need to leave before 02.00. When we reach reception the following morning, we find the receptionist, the security guard &, in his car right outside, our driver all fast asleep. But they all ‘spring to life’ on our arrival & we are on our way.