Sitting here on British Airways flight BA0125, from London to Bahrain, we have just finished lunch, and the seat belt sign has just been switch on. It is getting rather bumpy.

Below is Istanbul, to think I was down there only 5 days ago, not considering that I would be back, albeit at 37,000 feet, so soon.

I wonder what those that know me are doing right now. They would not know how close I am.

I know that Asu and Halil, two of my translators are somewhere in those snow covered mountains, skiing, or perhaps trying to. Do they know I am here?

How many people are up in the sky, unaware of the people below them? How many people realise that high above their head, sitting in metal tubes, thousands of people are racing through the sky to go to some far away country?

Oh well, I had better sit back, and watch a film. Another three hours before we land.