New trip, new adventures

- even though I didn't expect the first already on my way to Guatemala. Despite my dad's reassuring me that long-distance flights are barely ever delayed, we left London (heading to Miami) 50 minutes late, since the plane was smaller than the planned one and so some people had to be convinced to take a later flight and their luggage needed to be found. Already before I had been a little worried about my connection to Guatemala only one hour after the planned landing in Miami - with the delay now I was sure I wouldn't reach it. However, thanks to my express connection ticket I arrived at the gate less than 5 minutes before it closed.
Finally in Guatemala City, another problem came up: there was only one ATM in the whole airport - and it was out of order. At this point I was really happy that I had brought some dollars, because otherwise I wouldn't have had any chance to get to my hostel.Read more