Day 26 5th December 2006, Lima, Peru to Buenos Aires, Argentina 3,089km

The journey so far

My understanding of night flights is like this, you take off and dinner is quickly served before all the cabin lights are turned out and everyone including the stewards and stewardesses shut up. So either my understanding is way out or a flight a 3 hour flight at 1:25 am doesn´t fall into the category of a night flight.

This is how it works on a LAN Peru flight, take off, serve food an hour later and then about an hour before the flight lands turn out the cabin lights. Given I was fast asleep before the flight took off how do I know this? A very grumpy Shelley filled me in on all the details during our taxi ride to our hotel in Buenos Aires. One of the stewardesses took exception that I was asleep when "dinner" was served at 2:30am and made a persistent effort to wake me up.

Thanks to my previous job I am well trained in the art of filtering out the noise of annoying air stewards and stewardesses who in my opinion like the sound of their own voice way too much and I slept right through the flight.

Argentina is -3GMT vs -5GMT in Peru so we had a little jet lag but only one of us was feeling a little tired ;-) Checking into our hotel on the Ave de Mayo we were pleasantly greeted by almost a spitting image of Basil Fawlty, after a little exploring and finally getting the laundry done phew we sat back and enjoyed the sights and sounds of the city from our balcony.My first impression of Buenos Aires was that we had arrived in a smarter version of Paris, the buildings looking very French indeed but with the local residents dressed and groomed very smartly, needless to say I didn´t look like a local resident.

Highlights: Arriving in our second country Argentina.