Long day hanging around the airport....

22.50pm 25/09 Argentina Time. 11.50am Tomorrow in Sydney and also as far as our body clocks are concerned. So it’s been a really long day sitting around in the Airport. We came in about 4pm local time and the 12 hour flight to Panama City leaves 3.23am! We decided back in Sydney that there wasn’t much point in getting a hotel as there are none near the airport and it would be a 15km taxi ride to the centre of town to the nearest one. Also thought about going and having dinner somewhere but decided it wasn’t worth the risk of missing our connecting flight after the likely tour of all the taxi driver‘s friends “hotels“ and a hard sell trying to get us to stay at each one. We’ll have plenty of time in Buenos Aires when we come back to Argentina with a better grasp of the language.

So as a result it’s been a long and boring day! The airport is clean and open. Few cafes and restaurants but not much in the way of shops. No Internet access that I could find. Been trying out some rudimentary Spanish to have some lunch “Duos Hamburgerure Por Favour.” and we were able to buy a couple of packs of cards from someone who didn’t speak any English.

We both had about 3 hours sleep on the plane. The sun came up at Midnight EST shortly after we crossed the International Date Line.

The view was just clouds with the occasional patch of ocean until we reached Chile and then the Andes were an incredible sight with snow capped mountain peaks. Then after an hour of flying over flat farmland we landed in Buenos Aires.

We were told boarding would be starting around 10.30pm but it’s now 11.05 and noone is at the counter. There’s a big queue for a 2.40am flight to Rome. Wouldn’t want to live near a flight path in Argentina as there are flights going all night.

Sarah has fallen asleep on the bench next to me. I think we will both sleep well on the plane. We’ve both been up for about 30 hours now with only a little over 3 hours sleep. See how the next leg goes!