Well the best laid plans do sometimes unravel! There’s a check list to go through with some pocket and bag patting before departure. Visa, passport and tickets check. There’s something I still don’t really understand about airlines, and it’s their overbooking policy. So on my first leg of my flight from Heathrow two passengers needed to be removed, which then caused a long delay in rescheduling the flights take off slot. So there’s already tight timing getting the connecting flight from Bahrain and we miss it, or so we’re told (as it was still boarding when we landed!!!). Anyway a load of us are bumped off the flight and are put up in a centrally located Bahrain hotel resulting in an annoying addition to the trip. I had train tickets booked and plans ...
Talking to a fellow passenger from Totnes, who’s a human rights lawyer, interesting says technically were being held against our will, as our contract to get that flight has been broken. So being a hostage in a plush hotel in Bahrain, I ended up eating beef bacon for breakfast with my fellow hostages.