Congratulations WB on an excellent piece. I hope you were not too offended by 2D's comments. They in themselves shed an interesting slant on the problems of flying in a foreign country with a different language. We can all over extend ourselves and I for one could not put hand on heart and say I would not make the same or even worse mistakes under the stresses of the journey. It takes considerable bottle to make a trip like that and it is far better to try imperfectly than not try at all - within the limits of safe flying, of course
