Travel day. Up at 4 am to shower and pack toiletries and stuff. Taxi pickup at 5 am for a 7:55 am flight. No traffic and a driver driving fast and furious got us to the airport at 5:30. Luckily, the B.A. airport has an Admirals Club so we could have a little snack before we left.

It was about a 5 ½ hour flight on Lan Airlines from Buenos Aires to Lima where we were connecting to our Madrid flight. Nice seats. A little narrow but they reclined to a bed so I slept the entire time. I woke up when the flight attendants came around and opened all the window shades about an hour before we landed. Jerks.

We had a brutally long layover in Lima… NINE HOURS. We spent most of the day in the SUMAQ lounge. The Internet connection was spotty, especially when the lounge was packed, so that was frustrating.

The SUMAQ lounge kicks the Admirals Club’s butt in the snack selection. The AC in the States usually just has apples and snack mix but this lounge has a nice selection of mini sandwiches, chips, plantain chips, snack mix, and a variety of snacks. Not to mention freshly squeezed fruit juice.

The funniest thing is that the lounge doesn’t have an intercom or speaker system. Someone walks around to announce flight departures. Archaic but effective.

Our flight to Madrid is on Iberia Airlines It’s a 10.5 hour flight. We are scheduled to arrive in MAD around 2ish in the afternoon, local time.

Adios from South America!

-kb