Run for cover !! I AM BACK !!!!

Thankee thankee...

dlowan - I wish I could, but he had a big gun and I am sort of afraid of anything that shoots......bullets.

Eva dahling - how could kissing up to me be dangerous ? I am the most harmless person ever to roam this earth you know...

Roger - tea with milk and sugar - best thirst quencher in the summer heat !!

msolga - yeah 24 shirts <sigh> I just have to find a. Place to keep them in my wardrobe and b. enuff occassions to wear them

No pictures unfortunately, was way to lazy to go clicking - and well, anytime I wanna look at my parents or their house, well I just go there

Living in India is not easy of you are not born there - even me, don't think I can live there now, though to be honest I have been tempted. As a tourist it is great, but as a resident....errr..umm.. I am not too sure.

And I was in Delhi, far far away from the bombings.....

If your folks need a permanent resident, they are free to adopt me

I'm not even sure I want to ask this Margo, but why did you get deported from Yemen?

So, G, did you meet anyone *interesting* in your travels?

Yes, do tell, margo! I'm interested, too.

Gautam is back. Thank heavens. A bit of variety on the site. :wink:

msolga - define *interesting* !

Wilso - yeah I agree, too many str8 men get boring after a while

Hey, Gautam. Glad you be back. Never worried about you one moment. Some folks are just meant to make it. Doesn't make one bit of difference where you sat on the plane, you're first class all the way.

Now for the big question.

Did you find those lyrics?

Gautam - you make me laugh! Welcome Home!!!

Let me tell you it wasn't remotely interesting - and Yemen is the absolute arsehole of the universe. The worst place I've ever been! Why they'd even think anyone would want to stay there illegally is totally beyond me.

I arrived there on a boat, a 150 ft sailing ship, from the Maldives, at the time in my life when I ran away to sea. I planned to fly home to Sydney, by whatever route available, the next day! I didn't have a visa, because you couldn't get one in Sydney (that should have given me a clue ) At that time, usually people arriving by sailing didn't need visas in most places.

They refused to let me stay, even overnight. They told the owner/captain of the ship that they'd impound it if I stayed. Sheesh! I could stay if I could get a visa for India and take the flight to Delhi the next morning. I organised the flight,......so then the Indians refused to give me a visa as well. They don't have to give reasons. As Gautam will tell you - I'm a pretty harmless middle-aged female, with no history of insurrection. (I do have a couple of speeding fines!)

I was forced to go back on board the boat, and sail up the Red Sea to Egypt (yet another story!). I was 2 weeks late for work, which is later than I usually am

See - told you it wasn't interesting.

<Guffaw> Yemen, heh heh...you should have known....just because some of their stamps are cool doesn't make it a proper country

Stamps??? - they have stamps??? That would display more sense of organisation than I suspect they're capable of.

The place is chaotic, filthy, moribund. There are hulks of ships rotting in the harbour, and bullet holes everywhere from the last uprising. Scary, I tell you.

And the food is appalling - what little there is of it.

Can you tell it's not on my "to see again" list?

Hey, they could auction it off as real estate, as a "fixer-upper."

I think Al Quaeda is doing the makeover, there!

This is the country where the American navy ship (U.S.S.Cole?) was bombed in the harbour. Charming place!

I think you're pretty cool Margo, I once got kicked out of the Cavern Club in Liverpool, (which is probably about the same as being kicked out of yemen)......

but I've never been refused entry to a country that represents 20% of the worlds population, you must have been one unruly dude Margo.

Kevin

I am sooo harmless! Ask Gautam - the only A2k'er I've actually met!

I had landed in India on my way home from Europe a couple of years before, a Qantas set down between Rome and Singapore - and refused to give money to the beggars in the ladies' toilets. (I had no cash!) Perhaps this is why?

Margo, if that story isn't interesting (I'm glad I finaly 'heard' you tell it), I wonder about the rest of your life....

A belated welcome home, Gautam. What did you bring me?

Margo is a cool traveler. I agree, littlek, I wonder what actual trouble would be...

What a scary story Margo ... you were very brave to even think of going to Yemen! An experience you won't forget, huh?