My first day in India and taking some time to relax (and to try to shake off my cold) so felt the impulse to write my first diary entry. If it sounds a bit of an incoherent mish mash , well, that;s just the way it is i'm afraid! To start from the very beginning, the plane journey was not as bad as i had expected...I got put in a window seat right next to the giant boeing 747 wing (you don't want to look at what that thing does to itself when it lands.....metal was not meant to bend like that surely....?). Anyway, evidently, I survived the flight. The only eventful things to occur were for the plane's kitchen to fill with smoke at one point (disconcerting to say the least) and then for the
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