Food on a Cruise Lines 1636Different ships seem to have things that they're better at. I remember one cruise where the soups were amazing, where...
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Want to know what there is to do at Lima Airport in Peru? SFA, particularly in the departure "lounge" a misnomer if ever there was one. We were flying to Cuzco and duly left, flew for almost an hour and got to the expected arrival time when I noticed out the window that the scenery looked very familiar, and very close. I'm sure I've seen that coastline before. Come to think of it, those fishing boats look awfully close, considering we're flying inland.
We land at an airport, fire engines and ambulances racing alongside the plane. Was I scared? No, ignorance is bliss and I didn't even realise there was a problem with our plane. We landed back in Lima having burned off fuel for an emergency landing. All announcements were in Spanish and when we traipsed back into the terminal we had no idea what was happening or had happened. (Later found out there was a problem with the wings (ailerons, too lazy to look up the spelling, sorry) of the plane that prevented us from gaining albreastude. Saw them trying to sellotape the wings together before abandoning that idea and ordering in a new plane).
Hours pbutted. Our group of 17 friends travelling together were still wondering what was going on. Being a smoker and the terminal was non-smoking, I finally rebelled. I marched up to an armed guard (we don't have many guns in NZ, so we find guns scary) and demanded, in English, to be released from my confinement so I could go and have a smoke. No problem. I just had to sign an exit form and raced outside to smoke up large.
Getting back inside was no problem either. Signed back in, back to non-smoking and more waiting. We took off six hours later.
Kathy in NZ
