GETTING THERE After three days of miserable weather and bouts of homesickness Ive finally gotten around to enjoying Guatemala. Getting here was an experience in itself - not for all the right reasons. It took 24 hours in all via Madrid and Mexico airports. Mexico airport is madness. There are hundreds of gates, one information desk, no screens. All departure gates for flights are meticulously written down with pencil and communicated by two young Mexican girls. They also inform the hundreds of arriving passengers. In short - its a bit of a mess finding where you're going, which in my case was immigration. More madness. There were queues spilling out into the departures. Anyway I got through all that eventually and after a six hour wait during which I made a Mexican friend (I think he
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