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Colombia! (Eventually…) Part 2
So, after eventually getting the plane to Lima we arrived there and didn’t quite understand what it was we were supposed to do.
The airline had given us no proof that we were going to stay in a hotel (from the Caracas side) and we didn’t know whether we had to go through immigration or what.
So we resolved to spend the night in the airport just to be safe.
After finding some seats to lay on, we were awoken half an hour later by an announcement for us (in Spanish) asking us to come to the desk of the airline carrier!

So we found our way there (eventually, looking like a right pair of gringo’s) and they told us they had been waiting to take us to the hotel!
So after another hour of trying to get all of our stuff together (UK restrictions are nothing compared to all the paper work you have to do to enter South American countries), we were packed off to a posh hotel in Lima with our own taxi driver who was also picking us up a few hours later.

After a well deserved sleep in a bed(!), we had breakfast in the hotel and Saff had Bacon and Eggs (a big mistake as you will see).
We got into the taxi and Saff started to feel a little sick…
…and then the inevitable… Saff was sick all down her front and in her lap whilst the poor taxi driver pulled over and Tim looked on in horror! Egg and bacon all over again.
…so the upshot was that Lima taxi drivers are the best in the world, as the poor guy gave me a shirt that he had in the boot of his car to go the rest of the journey in. Although I had to sit in sick smelling trousers all the way to Colombia and I puked on the plane and then again on the car journey to our new apartment in Bogota… TOTAL NIGHTMARE!!!!

Ah well, all’s well that ends well!