Bogota

I'm already in Bogota! 😎 I flew here on New Year's Day, around 5:00 PM Colombian time. The take off from Madrid to Bogota was supposed to take place at 10:55 AM. However, when I finally got to the gate, it turned out that in order to be allowed to board the plane, I had to have an exit ticket from Colombia. I heard that this sometimes happens in the case of some countries, so I prepared a link to buy a temporary ticket. It's actually just a 24-hour ticket rental and costs ten dollars. I quickly fired up my browser and paid for the reservation.

Everything was fine, I was waiting for the confirmation and in the meantime all the passengers had already boarded. Only some latecomers were still showing up. Time was running out, and the confirmation didn't come 😬 So I quickly bought a real ticket from Bogota to Quito in Ecuador and changed a bit my plans, because I was supposed to cross that border on foot in Ipiales. Finally I managed to board, and after another 10 minutes, the now unnecessary confirmation came.

Then a second unpleasant surprise happened 😱 The plane stood there for twenty minutes, then slowly circled the terminal and returned to its place. The captain informed us that there was a generator failure. After more than an hour, it turned out that restarting the computer and engines solved the problem. Seriously, it's like MS Windows, you restart it and everything works. I wonder if pilots have Ctrl+Alt+Delete on their keyboards 😂Read more