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An Unplanned Extension, Homecoming and Highlights

Posted by elliemike | 10th May 2009

We obviously tempted fate by posting our last blog before we left India and things certainly didn’t go smoothly for us when we got to the airport to say the least. We had checked in and were going through immigration, boarding passes in hand, when the guy who should have stamped our passports told us that our visas had expired and sent us to an office where there was more bad news in store for us.

We were told that we had overstayed by 11 days (this wasn’t really our fault as the Indian Embassy in Indonesia had issued us the wrong visas - we should have been given 6 months and were only there for 6 weeks) and that we needed to go to an office in the centre of Mumbai to sort it out. If this wasn’t bad enough we were then told that the office would be closed until Monday due to public holidays and that we definitely couldn’t leave until then. It was Thursday when it happened.

After our bags had been taken off the plane and returned to us we were free to leave the airport. Slightly

Continued | Ellie and Mike's Trip

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