26 September 2025 : Journey to Peru

The Manchester to Madrid flight ran late throughout,  from check-in desk opening late to boarding, take off and landing being overdue.

However it was now that things started to go wrong. I received an email telling me that my flight on to Cusco had been canceled. The queues to resolve this were much shorter but also much much slower. 

Unfortunately I had another problem to resolve, I had booked a taxi through booking.com to collect me when my original flight arrived - they had the original flight number and were supposed to monitor it so should know the flight was cancelled but not when I would now be arriving. Booking.com had no interface for detailing  this kind of change but had given me the taxi driver's number which I called and then at his request confirmed through a WhatsApp message. The message got two ticks so was received but does not appear to have been read, and there was nobody to collect me from my new flight.

I arranged a new taxi at the airport which got me to my hotel after over 28 hours since leaving Mum's house. But now I'm here and Cusco looks stunning.