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Day 3 – Bogota

Friday 15th May, 2009 3 Comments

Managed to get a bit of a sleep in today – if you can call 8:30am a sleep in. Didn’t sleep as well as I would have liked – for some reason the hotel room gets really hot at night. I really can’t work out why. We headed downstairs for some breakfast and then spent … [Read More »]

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Day 2 – Santiago to Bogota

Thursday 14th May, 2009 3 Comments

Another early start this morning so we could check out of the airport hotel and wander across the road to check in for our flight. Wandered around the airport for a while and got some breakfast while waiting for our flight. The flight was just over 5 hours of flying time – a bit bumpy … [Read More »]

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Day 1 – Sydney to Santiago

Wednesday 13th May, 2009 2 Comments

After a late night finishing off some last minute preparation for the trip (computer stuff mostly), we were up early to catch the airport shuttle to the airport. We had re-arranged the packing slightly yesterday so that we had no more than 20kg in each of the bags. That’s still close to 80kg across the … [Read More »]

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At the airport

Wednesday 13th May, 2009 Leave a Comment

Currently waiting at Sydney international airport for our flight to Santiago. We will have a stopover in Auckland for about 90 minutes or so and should arrive in Santiago around noon today (Santiago time). Just an overnight stop in Santiago, staying at the Holiday Inn at the airport – we have an early flight to … [Read More »]

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Visas issued

Monday 11th May, 2009 2 Comments

Busy day today taking care of all the last minute items before we leave on Wednesday. Started off early, heading to North Sydney to visit the Colombian Consulate and submit our visa applications. The Consul and her staff were lovely people, one of them was actually from Cali and he was very excited that we … [Read More »]

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