To be honest… we didn’t choose the best flight. First of all we did not want to fly in the first place. Our van (Rosi) is currently being shipped to Montevideo and initially we wanted to travel with her on the ship. I was looking forward to the adventure of being on a cargo ship for 3-4 weeks in a small cabin and living with the crew, but sadly the shipping company is not offering this option anymore, so we had to fly.
We started to look for flights very very early to get a cheap and convenient option. I don’t know how this happened, but the option we chose was neither cheap nor convient. Maybe due to the fact that I became anxious at some point to book a flight before they all get booked out and become insanely expensive. So we booked a rather expensive flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City, a 15 hour layover and than a flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. Not the fastest and most direct connection.
But we tried to see the positive in it, since it gave us the opportunity to visit family and friends in NRW again before we took off, and that is exactly what we did. I am very happy that we still had time to spent so much time with Lindas and my family and friends on a bbq evening in Münster.
We took a train to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, and although we planned in extra delays, every train was on time. We had a fast and easy check in and I went through my first ever Airport security check where I was SPECIFICALLY asked to keep all electronics and fluids in the bag, which made me extra happy, since I had pretty much only electronics for the full trip in my hand luggage.
We boarded the first flight with KLM and took off. Food was good and I managed to watch 4 movies in a row (complexity of topics declining from „nomadlands“ to „lego batman“) before headaches forced me to sleep.
When we landed in Mexico City I was happy but tired as well. Surprisingly we had to go through immigrations and would have been free to explore Mexico City in the 15h layover. 10 years ago I would have maybe done it, but this time we were happy to find a nice restaurant, enjoy some mexican dinner and beers, before we would have to go through security again and sleep about 10 hours in a airport chair next to the gate. We decided against that and chose to spontaneously check in to a capsule hotel which was at the terminal. I spent many nights in the past in capsule like hostel dorms, but this one was different. It was a real capsule hotel, with a plastic capsule that looks like straight from a sci fi movie. We had to book a capsule each (capsule sharing forbidden) and checked in completely tired and fell asleep straight away. The good thing was, that we fell asleep in Argentine time, which fit perfectly when we look at it retrospectively.
The next morning we went through security again (this time I had to take out everything of my bag, which took ages, but the lady that was supposed to look at the x-ray screen preferred to talk to a coworker anyway), and made our way to the gate to check in the second flight.
This one was operated by Aeromexico and it was a pretty new plane. We had amazing seats, the service and even the food were great. Next to us sat a young mexican student on her way to a semester abroad in Buenos Aires and I could start to use my rusty Spanish skills.
Arriving in Buenos Aires after this very good flight we took an Uber to our airbnb, in front of which we still had a beer before we were let in. A very friendly Argentinian guy gave me a wifi hotspot to write the airbnb host and overall, I was impressed that everyone was so helpful and friendly. Is this normal everywhere else? Are we germans just always grumpy? Am I helpful enough when I see someone struggling? All these questions guided me to bed mixed with the excitement to explore this city.
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