Friday, 10 January 2014

Transit day

Arrived at the check in desk 2 and a half hours ahead of departure. There was no queue. Terminal 4 is quiet and calm with designer shops. 
The Qatar airline is very comfortable. Plenty of seat room. 6 hours to Doha followed by a thirty minute scoot around the terminal heaving with (mostly) Indians buying goods at the duty free. One stand was full of gold bagel, necklaces and other adornments. Each item was labelled by weight. 
Also on display were 3 glamorous cars- Porsche, Ferrari, and a Maserati. Men were posing beside them to have their photo taken.  Flight to Goa was three and a half hours.
Short wait to get through the immigration section and luckily our bags came out fairly quickly. There are advantages in arriving at 3am! When we travel with Thompson the baggage hall gets crammed with travellers and porters and people shoving and pushing and shouting. 
We really didn't know how we were getting in to the apartment because Kamal, the owner,  was to meet us at 8am and we were arriving at 5 as it's an hour from the airport. 
Phoned Vijay our taxi driver who thought we would arrive later so he had stopped along the road somewhere to have a snooze. 
The porter at the gate gave us the keys so we entered with ease and flopped into bed. 


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