Transit in Buenos Aires

Aerolineas Argentinas airline should call itself AeroTARDAS Argentinas, how much delays are apparently their specialty... takeoff in Sydney 4 hours delayed, missed connection for Bogota ! As a result, 3 days to wait in Buenos Aires ! A very nice stewardess was waiting for me at the Airport to go to Wilton Palace (4 star hotel) paid by the Airline, I am not going to complain! Crossing the Pacific was quite long; we made a stop at Auckland . The balloon with world map had once again a lot of success: depressurized when going down to Auckland, re-pressurized when going up to Buenos Aires . Juan, my neighbor in the aircraft, a Brazilian Painter, thought I was a fakir; he is mow very knowledgeable about pressure in aircrafts. Very nice view from 11000 meters high on Patagonia covered by snow and on Argentinean Pampa. Joke when I arrived at police check in Auckland : they threw my toothpaste tube away since it was over the limited size ¨Sorry it is half empty”, “yes but what is important is the size of the tube, not what is inside!” At first sight, Argentinean are not the friendliest on earth, they look proud and haughty.

Then, at second sight, they are very helpful and ready to discuss but you need to do the first step forward. Buenos Aires looks pretty much like our big occidental cities. Argentinean (men and women) are very well dressed and I look like a hobo in my 4 star hotel and I have no alibi since Magic is still in its box! In the night, poor people come in the nice streets to find something in rubbishes, 2-speed society as true as everywhere else! Tomorrow, on Sunday, one more start for the bike! Leaving to Bogota at 2.15 pm, biking again to find a room in the night, already scary! I plan to stay there 2 or 3 days to be better adapted to 2600 meters high because it is going to climb hard after that!