First preparations, first compromises, first screw ups So, today – or better last night I booked the flight for the first part of my big exploration of the globe, the tour through the Americas. Well the booking was easy, it took only 8 hours and it was so quick only because I exactly knew when I wanted to fly where… at least I thought so. It is simply amazing how many travel agencies do NOT accept credit cards! Or charge 50 euros to do so. When booking six fights, you don’t want to spend 300euros for the grace to use your credit card?! Rather spectacular was the booking “em portugês” on the monolingual webpage from Avianca Brazil, just to find out there was a switch to English on the second page… still they would communicate with ... read more