Dem Tom Hanks days

FYI technically you don't need a visa if you are transiting through a country via another country and have all the air flight tickets. But when people say technically they mean yah. So I get out of Katmandhu riding high, got a fantastically beautiful secret initiation handpainted better than a mandala part of the secret vajrahana (whatever the breakaway school of mahayana is in Tibet) with book for Dom Vinnie, left VIN quite pleased with them. Yeah they ask for money but it's not very much and they use it to build toilets actual toilets and help actual kids and I doubt there is as much leakage as with a christian or standard western NGO group.

So yeah when I get to Delhi they say you ain't going nowhere son, and there is no possibility of any action. All a bit too american so I reverted to Desi and said that's fine if you can find a way to get rid of me I'll go else I shall start wooing you and win your heart sir and I can be very alluring and once I had met his mother. So it went on for a while then their immigration expert hits on the idea that the stupid airline companies had a duty of care get them to sort it for the chappie and then keep him in the transit passenger or what they called the transfer lounge. There is no way Hanks could have made a living or fallen in love or pretty much anything apart from sit still and learn to appreciate impermanence and the nature of suffering.

So on reflection I probably wouldn't have tried to get the attention of any actual worker from BA or Jet. I think when the time came when the atmosphere was ripe with tapas and perhaps I may have appealed a little to the Lama Vajrasatva and his consort Dorje anyway but in the end instead of paying a shed load more of money to return to blighty I got an earlier flight which they exchanged for me. Oddly the travel agent had said you can change the flight but it will cost you 70 squid each time which is the main reason I didn't change it and explored the forgotten hills of Katmandhu which I rather liked. I am definitely going back for karmic debt repayment and to do some courses on Tibetan Buddhism. Those kids were really nice. All very insane made me feel right at home. And definitely not long enough for me to fall out with any of them.

Apart from that all goes well must get to the high commission tomorrow. Plan is still to return free princess live happily etc. So if you did wonder get a transit visa even if they say you won't need one, because sometimes you need to understand the layout of the terminals before you can really know if you need one and having one doesn't really hurt.