Florida and return

Sunday, 11 February 2018

Florida and return

Last day here in Colombia...
Today Johnatan (from Dedalos, with driver Florian) took me to 'Florida', a site near Cali/ south of the airport. In order to have good flying here, the sun needs to heat up the flats/ foothills. In the morning, when we decided to go there, it looked like it might work, but upon arrival on launch: lots of clouds...

...another nicely groomed Colombian launch...

They looked like they would thin out later in the afternoon, but I was unable to wait that long, as I needed to be at the airport around 1600, in order to have enough time to change and pack my gear properly for the return flight.

looking towards the town of Florida

In order to strech out my flight as much as possible, I was scratching all the way down and in the end had to make an out-landing.
Then I was taken back to the airport. Here I had hoped to rent a day room for a couple of hours, but unfortunately all rooms seemed to be occupied, so I had to change -without showering- in a bathroom :-((

Even though I had planned a connexion time of >2hrs in BOG, this was (almost) not enough, as the Avianca flight from CLO arrived 1.5hrs late. In BOG I had to pass through immigration and (again) through security, I finally arrived at the gate at STD, but was by far not the last one ;-)

route flown: 9hr 25min

Boeing 787 (Dreamliner) descending over Spain

Due to favorable winds the Avianca flight BOG-MAD arrived in MAD almost on schedule. I had been able to sleep a little. As I had renounced dinner, I needed 'something' to keep me going before the final leg to ZRH ;-)