The Boys are Back in Town

Today we are safely back at home and re-united with our Bears Unlimited friends. We are regaling them with all our adventures so that they can choose the best ones for us to publish to you over the next few days.

As we travelled home yesterday we realised just how far away the south of India is. We got up at 4.00 a.m. Indian time (10.30 p.m. English time) to go to the airport and finally got home at 1.00 a.m. this morning. 27 hours without sleep is a new Bears Unlimited record.

We'd like to commend Gulf Air for their special seatback bear holders which we demonstrate in the picture below. This was a lot better for us than being restrained in the elasticated back of seat pocket which never has enough room in view of the need to share with duty free magasines and all the other flight paraphenalia.


One of the reasons it took so long to get home was because we had a 6 hour transit at Muscat airport. We had a heart stopping moment coming into Muscat when we thought we might not see ours Bears Unlimited friends again, as we had an aborted landing literally seconds from touch down! Just as we were bracing ourselves for the bump the nose went up and we made a rapid ascent. Apparently the previous plane took too long clearing the runway.

After landing, we saw our quick reacting pilot in the transit lounge and popped over to thank him for handling this drama so well. We then felt the need to release some tension so tried a spot of camel riding. It was great fun.


More news soon

Love George & Yorkie xxx