Friday 12 December 2008

Still in Chennai

We have been enjoying the cricket immensely and on the first day of play we stayed for the whole day. It has made our trip worthwhile.
However, we have been delayed for a few days now, and whilst the cricket is good, if we stay much longer we will not meet even our rough deadline for being back in London. By the time we leave we will have only 4 weeks to complete what was supposed to be a 6 week journey. Oh well, I have full confidence in our making it.
The reason we have been delayed is because we have had so much trouble retrieving Wilma and Larry from customs. The man we hired to sort out the paperwork for us kept telling us that he needed to get one more stamp and that we were unable to pick up the car time and time again.
There was a bit of a palaver with the opening of the container (done yesterday) as they were originally going to have it opened without us being there. It was good that daddy insisted we had to be there as when it was actually opened they were quiet rough and disruptive with out belongings.
We were 5 hours at the customs as they were 2 hours late with our stamped paperwork.
As we were cruising home in the successfully rescued Wilma, with Larry in tow we realised that the man we hired had not given back all of our paperwork. We were supposed to leave this morning but the man decided to hold us ransom until we paid his bill today, a bill that is outrageously high with lots of 'hidden extras'. He would not even tell us were our paperwork is and insists we need another stamp from customs even though the office is closed today. Daddy and Tessie have gone to sort him out but we fear that we may have to stay until Monday which would mean missing a Christmas party in Bangalore with daddy's cousin tonight. most disappointing.
Am currently watching the cricket. England doing very poorly.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

just catching up on your blog again. Entertaining as ever! Good luck with the cricket - ha!

Unknown said...

Christmas party?! You are all ravers.

Lx

Joan said...

Glad you saw some cricket.Cherry and Reeve called here on Friday night with 4 dogs to try so sort out my problems Sat.morning. Reeve driving much more carefully as taking Lorry driving test in Nottingam on Thursday. They left to visit Melly and Thomas.Ken and Betty very keen to hear of your adventures in India. Love,G.XXXXXXXXX