Ushuaia - our adventure begins

There is not much fun in having to get up at 4:00 a.m. organize yourself, get breakfast, check the room and make sure you haven't left anything before you leave for the airport. We are rounded up onto buses with our remaining luggage. The sunrise is beautiful I should have taken a picture but I didn't think of it. Although our flight does not leave until around 8:00 we are at the airport early.

I am surprised that given this is the international airport of Buenos Aires, it is in fact quite small. It's a good thing we're here early because the queue to have our luggage scanned is very long and takes almost an hour before we get to immigration. We already have our boarding passes but we still need to go through the process. More queuing. Finally, we reach the airport lounge, it's very tiny. There are are two places selling coffee, maybe I chose the wrong one because the coffee was terrible.

The flight is uneventful, much to our surprise we are served a meal because we had already had breakfast and this is a charter flight. I couldn't eat anything anyway because it was all gluten except for a very sweet what might pass as a yogurt but very look more like some kind of pudding. The flight is four hours long.

Ushuaia is not as small as I had thought. The housing was not dissimilar to the colorful wooden houses we saw in Greenland and the Arctic. It would be very cold and icy in winter with long winter nights, which I think is the reason to have bright colored houses, something to cheer people up maybe. We are driven out of the town to a large restaurant. Obviously catering to the tourist industry. Many of the cruise ships stop here on their way to Antarctica. We're given a bit of a potted history of the town, but I don't take a lot in. Lunch we are told is a traditional lamb dish which looks like it started life as lamb on a spit which has then been hacked into pieces put in warm trays and brought to the table served with a couple of salads. I thought the lamb was quite nice. The area is very mountainous and snow is visible. It's also very forested but the area looks very much like everywhere else. After lunch back to town and the ship.

They had all our luggage which they've put in our cabins, one less thing we have to think about. We go through the usual procedure of having our photo taken, handing in our medical form, handing over our passports and being issued with our room card. I like to get as much unpacked as soon as I get into the cabin before we go through the regular safety drill. I managed to get most things put away. I was a little concerned that after the luxury of two cabins on the last trip, that trying to fit into one cabin would be a challenge. However, it seems to have gone reasonably well and so far we haven't forgotten anything critical .

Really now looking forward to bed after dinner.もっと詳しく