Northumberland to Buenos Aires

The Long Way There

18.04.2010 - 20.04.2010
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Quite Interesting

The journey was long and we owe friends and family a great big thankyou. In the end we had no option but to take the decision to go from Madrid. Our flight from Heathrow was cancelled at 3.00pm on Saturday and within 20 minutes we had booked the flight with Iberia from Madrid,the ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo and a hire car one way to Madrid. A friend Allan Taylor ( thanks very very much) said we could take his car to Milton Keynes and he would drive it back. Once there Caroline Stephenson (sister in law) said she would take us to Portsmouth(again many many thanks).

Setting off from home at 8.30am we eventually arrived in Portsmouth at 6.30 pm well in time for the overnight ferry. We had been contacted by David Roberts a fellow rider and we arranged to meet him at Portsmouth to share the car to Madrid.

After a couple of pints, steak and chips and a good nights sleep we arrived in St Malo at 8.30 on Monday in time to pick up the hire car. We were fortunate that the chanel was like a mill pond overnight. Then it was the long long drive through France to the centre of Spain arriving in Madrid Airport after a trouble free journey at 2.30 am on Tuesday.

Although Madrid airport is enormous it only has about two seats and both of those were taken. This meant passing the 7 hours until checkin with a very uncomfortable sleep in a overloaded Astra hire car. Still we'd got there without a single hitch.

The last part of the journey went equally smoothly consisting of a 12 hour flight to Buenos Aires where we arrived at 8.15pm BA time.

I have no idea how long we were travelling niether of us can be bothered to add it up, but it seemed like forever! However, we are here safe and sound and are now waiting to pick up our bikes.

Random Thoughts

We are knackered!!!!

Posted by Mick G 21.04.2010 18:00 Archived in Argentina Tagged air_travel