My flight from Sri Lanka was an early one but Dad had booked me onto a Business class flight back from Colombo which was perfect, a few glasses of champagne and a decent meal later I arrived back in Doha, a destination I had been to over 15 times but always nice to visit! The 3 days in Qatar was very relaxing, a beach day and a day by the pool before having a leaving meal with my Mum and Dad and a group of Indians that helped me with my aircraft license and ther...

The moment I arrived at Heathrow the planning and preparation was all behind me, nothing more I could do now but jump on the plane and fly away! The nine-hour Jet airways flight was actually very good and "flew by"! The new jet airways terminal had just opened that day so we were stuck on the taxi way for over an hour before we could get off! I sprinted to the transfers security area where I found that none of the machines had been installed yet so they had to ...

An airport is the worst place to spend time when your neither waiting for a flight or waiting to pick someone up. I wasn't sure if it was the tiredness or the two beers I had whilst waiting in Weathersoons terminal 4 but I had a "eureka "moment that probably started the planning for this massive trip around the world! I had just flown a nightmare of a trip, possibly the worst you could have! The type of trip to put most people off travel for years to come! ...