I had been in London for 3 days with work and now it was time to head off to India with Discover Adventure.

Unfortunately, Karen, who I’d been staying with, was unable to make the trip so it was hard for her when I headed off to the airport.

I had booked meet and great at Heathrow but I had to wait a little bit as I had arrived early.  Eventually the guy came to pick up the car and I headed into the terminal to meet up with those who had already arrived.

We met in Pret and then headed down to meet Johnny from DA who had all our flight details. To go to India you have to fill in quite a few forms beforehand. One is a e-visa which took me around an hour to complete as you have to have certain photos in very specific formats and size. The other two, an entrance form and health declaration were much easier.

Christina, our DA guide was supposed to be getting a different, and earlier flight from Heathrow to Delhip, but her flight was delayed and then cancelled. Unfortunately she couldn’t transfer onto our flight as was a different airline.

So we checked in at the booth to get our boarding passes, and then headed to drop off our bags. At the bag drop they checked our e-visa. Unfortunately Terri had a digit wrong on her passport number so she got pulled to one side, the rest of us got through ok.  Terri eventually made it through too.

After going through security which was painless, we met up in the Curator to have some food and drink.

After refreshments we headed off to our gate and boarded the plane to Delhi. Ali and I had 3 seats between us which was really nice.

On the flight I watched ‘Die my love’ which was an interesting film. Although it was an overnight flight I probably only slept for around an hour out of the 8 hours it took to get there.