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Published: September 26th 2006
Nick:
Here we are after a long flight, finally on Argentine soil.
The flight was delayed, of course, and the flight was packed to capacity and we were left with middle of the middle seats!! And once on board I found that my immediate neighbour could only be described as corpulant and very enthusiastic about letting everyone know he was yawning.... On top of which he was evidently a technophobe as he kept asking me the same question every 30 or so minutes and that was how to work the remote control for the LCD in the back of the seat in front of him: " no you don´t poke the screen, you use the armrest control pad" (he could not see this as it was below his personal horizon) so I spent the night reaching over to show him how to switch channels...." yes it is just like the last time I showed you...fancy that, eh?" Luckily, his elbow was just the right shape to fit into the crevice that used to contain my right kidney.
Despite all that, and despite trying to be annnoyed by it, I had to laugh and he was actually quite a nice guy, insisting on us visiting his beach resort restaurant when we go through.
On the plus side this was my first flight on a Jumbo jet (they don´t land gracefully) so that was nice.
It is now 13.15 AR time and I´m killing the 1.5 hrs I have to wait before the bike is brought out fo the customs holding area, and so far the whole process has not been the red tape fetish party I had been told it would be.
Argentines seem to be a very friendly bunch so far. Airports and railway stations are usually the domain of the rushed and the surly, but not here. One bloke even bought us some chocolate biscuits simply because we where lunching on a bench and we´d said hello!! Say hello to a stranger in London and you´d better be wearing running shoes! No photos today as I can´t down load them on this PC and the caffeine in my system needed to function on 3 hrs sleep makes olding a camera steady a bit difficult! Tilll next time, amigos....arriba, arriba!
Kristina:
We are in Argentina!!! I still cannot believe it. I´m so used to planning ahead and running around that the concept of a 3 month holiday has still not quite sank in... But I´ll get there, and I have a feeling that once I´m there it will be really difficult to get back - but I´ll think about that later 😊 On the plane, the old man sitting next to Nick was hilarous 😊 Nick will hate me for this 😊 But how can you not smile when someone next to you is watching TV through a magnifying glass (literally!! - like inspecting a rare insect) and walking to the toilets with his head-set still plugged onto his seat - Nick will make a good father / carer one day 😊)
The Cargo Terminal of BA is really nice (that´s the only thing I´ve seen so far). The people are friendly (even though I´m getting a lot of stareing... but in a nice way - I hope!). I must say that argentinian man are rather good looking - added bonus to my 2-hour wait when Nick was mingling with the customs staff.
Hopefully we´ll be able to get the bike up and running today. Eric and Emily are waiting for us already. We´ll be spending a day or two in BA and then head off towards Patagonia!!!!! Vow.
We will keep you posted on our adventures during the next 89 days!
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Al
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The standards has been set...
Fantastic first foreign blog - you guys have now set the entertainment standard, so we'll be looking forward to the next installment(s - assuming you don't get stymied at the first hurdle of passport control!) Keep us posted - and have fun!