Day 1 - Arrival

After 25 hours of being awake, we have finally arrived at the hotel in Georgetown, at 1am local time, or 6am London time, and have spent the whole day in airports.

This morning we managed to just about make the 7.17am Gatwick express from Victoria, which was jam-packed even for that time in the morning. We queued for ages in Gatwick with 11 bags, and had to put most of them on the oversized belt, and then again we stood in a very long queue to gets our bags scanned - the message being 3 hours arriving at the airport in advance is well-timed!
We didn't all sit together on the plane, which lasted for 9 hours in the company of incessantly screaming babies EVERYWHERE. None of us managed to get some sleep, so instead resorted to watching 3 movies, and took a few strolls here and there.

At Barbados the warm weather greeted us - no less than 30C - along with a short tropical downpour. However, feeling so liberated and free after that flight, most of us stood and enjoyed it! The queue at the airport to check in was even longer than anything in Gatwick, and we had to pay $35 extra for excess baggage. We then went on a mission to find some food, and ended up paying universally extortionate airport prices, and had to sit around for what seemed like an eternity. Also, we found out that Emma managed to get a pocket knife through Gatwick security! Our flight was delayed by a total of 2 hours, and when we arrived in Guyana after severe decompression symptoms and feeling nauseous from the mini plane we queued for, again, an eternity for immigration sevices.

We were all feeling the sleep deprivation getting to us, but the fun hadn't begun! First, when a few of us had gotten through with our 2-month visas we realized only 4/11 bags had arrived as well as that 3 of us were only able to get month-long visas!
So we sat around and worried, but after having made a complaint about the visas they were changed, and 15 minutes later the rest of our bags arrived on a different flight!

So now we're finally all settling down safely for the night, the guys with a bottle of beer and the girls in their nightgowns and curlers. Sweet dreams, and till the next time!