Update from Bahrain

After about 3 hours sleep we were up at 4am this morning to get a taxi to Heathrow, after a tearful parting from Charlie & Oscar. We went to the right airport this time and managed breakfast (Starbuck's paninis) and even some shopping.

The flight to Bahrain has been good so far (we're 37000 feet above Turkey just now) and lunch was very nice, chicken, rice & red wine. The flight, or this leg at least, is much shorter than expected, 5.5 hours, and we expect more shopping at Bahrain, followed by a confusingly short overnight flight to Delhi.

Sue's having a nap now, while I'm hoping someone's noticed we're on course to fly over Baghdad!

We just turned right, so I think we'll be OK.

One interesting thing on this flight is the information on speed, maps etc includes a page telling you the direction & distance for Mecca. This must be to help with prayer, and it's only a small thing but it must be quite hard to work out for yourself when you're in flight.

Only an hour to Bahrain now, so we'll sign off for now, but will try to get some photos when we get there.

M&S