The hangover was fortunately milder than anticipated, but that may have been because I began the day still drunk. It took a few false starts to find Barons Court tube station, which is really not all that far from my house. I went back all the way to Heathrow, ran at the departures board... and saw that the flight was cancelled. I took a second look to make sure as I was still a little inebriated and confused, and it transpired the flight to Nairobi was cancelled and the flight to Mumbai was still scheduled. I did a happy dance, and rushed to the bag drop smiling like an idiot.
The flight more or less on time. Unfortunately I found myself seated between 2 babies. However, one of the BA cabin staff (much better than the ground staff) noticed my plight and shifted me to a much better seat with legroom, an empty seat to my right, and Tarundeep, a friendly investment banker from JP Morgan Mumbai on my left. As he endeavoured to make polite conversation, I banged on for a good 20 minutes about my travel woes, and having missed my connection from Mumbai to Goa. Tarundeep took pity on me, and kindly let me use his iPhone once we'd landed to try and reserve another ticket online for the first flight out. He must have regretted it, as I kept mashing all the wrong links on the touch screen, and after half an hour we had to give up as the website just wouldn't accept my credit card details.
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