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 »]
Day 1 – Sydney to Santiago
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 »]
At the airport
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 »]
Visas issued
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 »]
Flights Booked
Slight change of plans for the trip. Turns out that Qantas and Avianca are having a bit of a problem with invalid fare codes in the booking system, meaning that we can can’t actually book Avianca flights correctly right now (not without jumping through too many hoops). This has made the whole trip rather more … [Read More »]
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