We’re leaving for Bangalore this evening, and for London tomorrow. Yay! Amazingly, the Italy (Schengen) visa came through in just two days, after I went to Chennai to submit the forms on both our behalfs, had some bad moments with the travel insurance and so on and had the chappie tell me we’d most probably have to go to Mumbai for an interview! That would have been another 20K down the drain…And yet miraculously I took the overnight train back to Cochin the same evening (Tuesday), and by Thursday, the passports had arrived at home! That’s what I call efficiency 🙂 Considering the UK visa took exactly one calendar month to arrive…

So we go to London/Belfast/Rome with Venice and Florence thrown in somewhere…

I’ve been spending hours on the net booking/trying to book trains through the Trenitalia site…only at the end it tells me I need to scan my ID, my card, and what not, mail it to them and they’ll authorise the transaction. Bosh! I also thought raileurope.co.in allowing payment in rupees was wonderful, until I got to paying and found they only deliver paper tickets! How backward of them, to be sure.

In any case, London, here we come…Are any of my readers in any of these places and shall we meet?

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