Rucksack and Roll - A Round the World Travel Blog

Well just over one month now… We’ve been a bit lapse in updating the blog but hopefully this post fills you in on what we’ve been up to! The Real Travelling Begins After a lengthy layover in Madrid airport we endured the 11 hour transatlantic flight into Lima, Peru aboard a painfully uncomfortable Iberia Airbus A340 with way too many seats crammed inside. We made it through immigration control without … Continue reading →

We’ve made ourselves at home in Madrid airport. What began as a 90 minute plane swap is turning into a 9 hour layover thanks to strikes and volcanoes (not the Icelandic one, but one in Guatemala and another in Ecuador).  It’s just after 11pm and we’ve got another 4 or 5 hours to wait provided nothing else erupts, explodes or decides it doesn’t fancy going to work. Madrid Barajas is … Continue reading →