There's goes my trip to India . . .

[Sundae]

They're holding hostages, and it was gunmen not car-bombs. I think they have a further point to make. Of course they're terrorists all the same, but I doubt wholesale killing of Westerners was their aim.

I actually know (knew) quite a few people from Mumbai, or at least with family from there. I bet they are really distressed right now. It won't necessarily be the risk posed to their family and friends (which as Indians will be reasonably low) it's the fact that something so horrible has happened in their city. It's mind boggling to imagine this happening somewhere like Cambridge or Sheffield. It would make me feel sick.

And selfishly, India is high on my want-to-see list too. I guess this is what they call luck - I didn't win the lottery, I didn't go on a trip round the world and I wasn't staying in a 5 star hotel in India this week.