Travel Update!

Good day Readers,

As many of you are aware, we should be mid-air at the moment on our way home from India. However, the volcanic ash cloud that is causing chaos across the world has now affected our travel schedule as well, and our flight home has been cancelled.

Over the past few days, we'd been beginning to expect this situation would arise so it didn't come as too much of a shock. Everybody is coping extremely well and focussing on the positive aspects of what has happened - the group moral has remained high despite the disappointment.

With regards to when we'll get home, it's not very clear yet due to the back-log of stranded passegers and fully-booked flights. What we do know is that we'll be leaving Delhi on Thursday morning and flying to Cyprus (via Bahrain). We'll then be staying in Cyprus until we can get a flight home (hopefully this will be at the weekend or early next week).

Now we know the plan, we're going to make the most of the time we have. In fact, tomorrow is my 21st Birthday & Nicole's 20th Birthday! To celebrate, we're going out for a meal tonight and tomorrow we'll be undertaking a '21 hour 21st Birthday Filmmaking Challenge on April 21st'! After all, we are filmmakers. The challenge is to create a film from scratch (including post-production) in 21 hours - the film can be any lenght but must be comprised of 21 shots! I'll be sure to update you on how it goes.

That's all for now. I hope everyone is well.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone in India and back at UCLAN who have been working extremely hard to try and get us home safely and quickly - your efforts are hugely appreciated. Also, a HUGE thank you to Nia's parents Chris & Alwyn who are letting us all stay in their Cyprus appartment!

I'll continue to update the blog and use it as a way of communicating with everyone for as long as we're away from home!

Take care.

John
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PS. Incase you haven't yet seen it, the blog for Days 19, 20 & 21 was posted yesterday and can be found below!