We finally arrived in Quito today (6th June), after an interesting plane diversion to Guayaquil. We started travelling at about 7am in Boston, then spent about 19 hours travelling on cars, boats and planes to get to Quito (via a few hours stopover in Miami), only to find that there was too much fog to land, when we arrived over Quito airport.
The pilot then had to divert us to the next nearest big airport (another 45 mins away). We landed and got through immigration at about 1am, then had to wrestle with the inefficiencies of South American airline staff (no communication, a free-for-all to get on minibuses to take us to some unknown hotel). We eventually got to bed at about 2:30am, then had to get up at 7am in order to get the same plane back to Quito the next morning!
Despite all this hassle and ultra-tirednesss, with our new found relaxed attitude to travelling and life (which we acquired the day after we quit our jobs in June!), we just went with the flow and are now having a lovely afternoon in the capital city of Ecuador, sampling the local cusine, experiencing mild altitude sickness, and preparing for our imminent trip to the Galapagos islands.
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so glad to hear your "voice" and look forward to hearing about the galapagos. mum/helen
well, it's lovely and hot here - just like being abroad like wot you are! ummm NOT. Poppy had her bag nicked on Thurs eve so we are SO NOT going back to The Green ever again! Off to Tuscany on Sat..hurrah!
hi there, good to hear from you. nice thinking about you being all relaxed and travelly . . . . . .
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