Currently waiting at Sydney international airport for our flight to Santiago. We will have a stopover in Auckland for about 90 minutes or so and should arrive in Santiago around noon today (Santiago time). Just an overnight stop in Santiago, staying at the Holiday Inn at the airport – we have an early flight to … [Read More »]

Busy day today taking care of all the last minute items before we leave on Wednesday. Started off early, heading to North Sydney to visit the Colombian Consulate and submit our visa applications. The Consul and her staff were lovely people, one of them was actually from Cali and he was very excited that we … [Read More »]

Slight change of plans for the trip. Turns out that Qantas and Avianca are having a bit of a problem with invalid fare codes in the booking system, meaning that we can can’t actually book Avianca flights correctly right now (not without jumping through too many hoops). This has made the whole trip rather more … [Read More »]

Finally we have the go-ahead to travel to Colombia. Andres has passed all his medical checks and his visa has been approved pending final documentation from Colombia. We have an appointment on the 18th May at the orphanage to collect Andres and I think another meeting or two the day after – and then we … [Read More »]

We spent the weekend filling out forms from the Department of Immigration, applying for a visa for Andres to enter the country, and then Leanne spent a couple of hours this morning trying to pay the fees for the application. The confusing thing about the paperwork is that you cannot actually apply for a visa … [Read More »]