AhmedaBAD Night's Sleep
Trip Start
Sep 25, 2008
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Trip End
Apr 01, 2009
Ahmedabad,
Gujarat,
India
Monday, December 1, 2008
We caught a bus from Udaipur to Ahmedabad which was suprisingly comfortable with huge seats like you get in first class on aeroplanes, or so I hear!!! And unlike the trains it more or less arrived on time, perhaps this is the way to travel around India.
It was about 8pm when we made it to the airport, our flight was at 6am so we had to check in at 4 which meant we didn't see the point in forking out loads for a hotel, we'd just sleep at the airport for a few hours.
This was not as simple as we had thought. As out tickets were for the next day they weren't going to let us into the terminal. We went and spoke to the airline we'd booked with and one of their guys went off to speak to security. He came back a while later....
'I've explained to them you're British, and they've said you can go in'
I'm not sure quite what it was about our Britishness that swung it for us, perhaps because of the attacks, although I think only 1 Brit died in that, or perhaps it suddenly meant we weren't seen as a threat. Anyway for whatever reason we were allowed in. We had a meal and picked our spot for the night.
Soon the last flight of the night had left, it was just us, security and the cleaners. And then it was just us, security, the cleaners and the builders; builders with big pneumatic drills!
We probably got a couple of hours sleep at best, but time passed quickly and soon enough the terminal starting filling up with people again and we were on our way to Chennai.
