I'm all excited! Tomorrow we'll be boarding a plane and heading over the South American continent to Ecuador. We'll be landing in a city called Guayaquil (pronounced why-a-kill apparently), which as well as being the largest and most populated city of the country, is also a place where tourists need to be a little bit careful. I checked out Trip Advisor, statements such as "it's safe for women to travel on buses, as long as they sit at the front near the driver" or "be careful to get a legitimate taxi, to prevent kidnapping/mugging" do not inspire confidence. But hey, we're off on holiday - to lots of new and strange places. How good is that!
Peter is going to be working on the Voyager, on a Voyages of Discovery cruise -"Contrasts of Latin America", and we'll be visting Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize and Mexico, and that is only the first two weeks - how lucky am I? Or mebbe it's cleverness, landing a guy who is talented enough to work this way.
So we are in the Cambridge Hotel near Gatwick Airport, just chilling before we go and find some food. The drive down was easy enough (of course it was, Peter was driving) and we got here about 5pm. The hotel is OK, obviously used to dealing with hoards of people needing to get to the airport. Our room is a little dated, but clean and we are happy. There is just one little niggly thing.
Storm Katie is on her way and she'll be hovering over Gatwick Airport in the early hours of the morning. Knowing our luck, she'll hang around until about the time we are due to take off. We'll just have to wait and see.......
Peter is going to be working on the Voyager, on a Voyages of Discovery cruise -"Contrasts of Latin America", and we'll be visting Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize and Mexico, and that is only the first two weeks - how lucky am I? Or mebbe it's cleverness, landing a guy who is talented enough to work this way.
So we are in the Cambridge Hotel near Gatwick Airport, just chilling before we go and find some food. The drive down was easy enough (of course it was, Peter was driving) and we got here about 5pm. The hotel is OK, obviously used to dealing with hoards of people needing to get to the airport. Our room is a little dated, but clean and we are happy. There is just one little niggly thing.
Storm Katie is on her way and she'll be hovering over Gatwick Airport in the early hours of the morning. Knowing our luck, she'll hang around until about the time we are due to take off. We'll just have to wait and see.......
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