The boys were on scooters and got soaked, but so did Luke's passport. We dried it out but the photograph had been damaged. No problem getting out of KS, or in and out of Bangkok, but at Dubai they would not let him through and were going to deport him back to BK as thy should not have let him out. Fortunately Clare had stayed with him and not come through passport control, no way they would let him through but they did agree to send him back to the UK but we then had to wait about three hours whilst she negotiated with Emirates staff to get him back home. Fortunately they were excellent and arranged a flight this morning at 0730 on his original ticket back to Aberdeen with no charge.
However this was at 2200 so she got them to let him use the Elite Lounge so he got a meal and a bed for the night and got away this morning with no problem. A sad way to end his holiday as he was looking forward so much to Dubai as he had not been here before, but at least we did not have the nightmare of him being sent back to BK. Anybody see the Tom Hanks film Terminal?
Very proud of my daughter, lord know what would have happened if it had just been the three of us without Clare and Jamie who had contact via their mobiles as we were hundreds of yards apart. Why did we not call the British Embassy, we did but it was Friday and closed and they were all off to a beach party.
However a great view from Clare's back garden in the new apartment.
tut
ps:- nice comfy bed that you left me Jen
does he need a lift home?
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) it's in a fabulous location, though a lot of my friends are in JLT and the marina.
