Journey home

We had an uneventful flight and a typical welcome to Bangalore. Our driver wasn't at the airport to pick us up. Despite me explaining in great detail the time of pickup: 0h30 or 30 minutes past midnight Tuesday morning, he hadn't understood. At least, that was his excuse.

So we got a pre-paid taxi home. The whole principle of pre-paid is that you pay an agreed amount at the airport, to avoid you being ripped off by the driver. This may seem obvious to you. However, when we arrived at our house, the driver said, "50 rupees extra for luggage". I nearly laughed it was so cheeky...and so typical. But after a very long journey my humour was out of stock. So he got several "No"s and eventually backed down.

I'm now enjoying the B'lore warmth and sunshine even more, especially following our journey in France to the airport, which was done in the dark and in strong rain. A house is being built here just across the street, so the noise levels are even higher, I think I'll be wearing ear plugs this afternoon to concentrate on editing for the magazine!

We're now thinking of our other journey home, back to France, in 3 months. What cars to buy? Where to live? Rent or buy? Fortunately we have our trip to Japan in end October to put a stop to all this serious thinking!