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È passato un anno… – 13.02.2020 [it]
[en] Wet departure from Lausanne, after a first flight to Madrid, I join the first 3 travelers with whom I will continue the travel. The late hour and the environment on the plane seem a good premise to sleep while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, Brazil and the Andes, destination Santiago de Chile. A year has…
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The End – 02.03.2020 [it]
[en] Quiet flight and solitary transit in Madrid (the other travelling companions have a different itinerary as they go to Milan while I go to Geneva). In the airport, apart from some problems to pass the automatic entry control in the Schengen zone, everything is quiet even if I can see some masks and I…
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Santiago – 01.03.2020 [it]
[en] While waiting for the return flights, we have one morning to visit Santiago, the group is breaking up . For a good while, I walk around the centre with Fabio before returning to the hotel and taking a last walk in the park on the nearby hill. Then we leave as a group for…
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Falkland – Cile – 29.02.2020 [it]
We get back: the first step is to take the plane at Mount Pleasant, almost 2 hours in the queue to carry out the “formalities” including the payment of the “tourist” tax at the exit. The few flights – one or two commercial flights and a military one – can justify the slowness? After the…
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Stanley – 28.02.2020 [it]
[en] In the morning, last visit of the fauna: albatrosses, cormorants and some rockhopper penguins. To continue with the flight back to Stanley including a stopover at Pebble Island where we had gone earlier in the week. Probably the nicer flight thanks to the weather and the itinerary. In Stanley the weather was better than…
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The Neck – 27.02.2020 [en]
Rough morning, I can say that the second sticker on the door of the airport was done, after take-off, overflying the runway and immediate landing, the right engine did not give all the expected power! Result: two hours of waiting for the rotation with the other plane…. At Sounders Island, the weather is very bad,…
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