Gutted

I'd come to terms with the idea that I wouldn't get time to be able to travel the huge distance from Pune to Manali in order to visit DUF - the place that became a second home to me during my first gap year in India. It seemed hard because obviously being in India is a LOT closer to re-visitng than being here in the UK, and I really wanted to be able to visit them, but I'd got used to the idea and accepted that I can always save up for another chance... hopefully.
HOWEVER I just signed in to my emails to discover a Wedding Invitation from DUF because one of their older girls (who I didn't meet, but that wouldn't matter - I'm a part of the family) is getting married on 7th October!!! I'll be in India then!!! I did consider begging Sangam to let me go, but I'll be in the middle of my training (well, barely started actually) so it'd be the worst time to request and I doubt it'd be possible. Which is fair enough - I've signed up for the job and had already focused on that in my mind. And then I did a search for flights straight up to Kullu as that's the only way I'd make it, and because it's such late notice they'd cost me getting on for £300!!! That's almost as much as the flight from here to Mumbai and there's no way I can justify it.
So nothing's changed really, but right now I'm feeling decidedly disappointed because that would so totally have been one of the greatest ways to revisit DUF.....

TTFN