Hello to all fans of traveling gibberish and grammatical nightmares!

Here we go again. I managed to save some money and found another loony, who was willing to enjoy some time traveling far away from home. Let me introduce my London flatmate Jan alias Mort. He was at the birth of our Latin American planning and his faith in our trip never dithered, even at times when I wasn't sure myself, if I'll have the time to make it.

After several weeks of looking for a flight ticket, which would comply with a vital condition not to touch US soil and many attempts, we finally managed to sort out our transport to Lima. Our friends from the US Embassy must have mistaken Mort with Usama bin Laden and in spite of a huge heap of documents he provided he was declared a threat to the sweet sleep of US citizens and denied a transit visa. I was afraid that the same result would await my attempt to obtain one so i let my $130 forfeit and didn't even bother to turn up for the interview.

The aftermath of our visa ordeal was clear and our only option was to look for direct flights from Europe to South America. Unfortunately, the number of those flights is almost none compared to flights via US (altogether five flights compared to millions of flights) and therefore the price is accordingly higher (two times more would be amongst the cheapest). We ended up with a Spanish airliner Air Comet, which wasn't exactly overflowing with positive references over the Internet, but was cheap and my Catalonian friend (Pere) assured me that he survived his flight with Air Comet with nothing worse than callous buttocks, so with a bit of luck we should expect the same.

Our flight is scheduled Madrid => Lima 30.8. and return flight on 2.10. arriving to Madrid on the 3.10. Our preliminary plan is to get ourselves slowly through Peru to Bolivia over the first week and then spend the rest of our time there, taking a flight back to Lima for our return to Mother Europe.

- translated by Mort.