Day 7 - Fri 19/12/08 Up at 5.30 to get our taxi to Quito airport for our Galapagos flight. We sat next to a lovely german guy called George who had been mountain climbing and actually got to the summit of Cotopaxi which is something like 6000m! Once we landed in Baltra the transfer was a bit manic as it was a bus, then a boat, then another bus but it was very nice weather so no complaints. I think nearly everyone was in a group getting on one of the boats so we ...

Day 1 - Sat 13/12/08 Arrived early at Heathrow T5 for our flight to Miami - had checked in online so expected to go through the Fast bag drop but it was quickly renamed ´slow' bag drop by everyone in the queue as everyone seemed to have checked in online so the queue was the same as it would have been! Flight passed unremarkably which was good, watched a couple of films and had snacks every couple of hours (good old British Airways) and arrived in a very warm ...