My time at this airport has been most amusing. I have a few hours to kill - had a late checkout, but decided I might as well hang out in the lounge - so after the usuals -Lan C check-in took all of a couple minutes, with no wait - the Tax Payment line -a brasilero cut in front of several folks, with another woman speaking up to tell him to go back, security line was short - immigration line took awhile with a brasilera coughing behind me most of the time without covering her mouth and bumping into me with her monsterpurse each time she turned around, finally off to the AA lounge which Lan uses. I was at the computer terminal, when a woman said to me, in very very slow ingl�s that she was waiting to use the computer next and she was going to get some wine. I looked at her with that �I really don�t understand you � look, but when she was done, I responded in English sin acento, and there was amusement 1 for the afternoon. I then went by the snackies before leaving, and a woman asked if the bag was mine - I told her yes, and she moved it out of her way and she said �We�ve all been through hell�. I said �We have?� I am glad I wasn�t on her cruise, or whatever her tour was.

I then decided to go to the Priority Pass-related lounge, as I have time, and it is free for me, so here I am, in a sweatbox, with a surly desk clerk, it is overcrowded, but the copa de vino I am having is better than that which I had in the AA lounge. Many of the punctuation keys on this keyboard aren�t working.

Soon, it will be back to the AA lounge. I cannot wait to meet more cruiseship passengers circa 65 to 80 years old. They were swarming around my hotel, kvetching. Now I get to see them at the airport. The price one pays for good air conditioning and a place to sit.

And that is all the report from EZE this afternoon.

Oh, there is more. Almost all the Aerolineas flights on the board are showing delayed.

Fin

it really is difficult to keep yourself amused for anything more than an hour at EZE isn't it? I think mostly because everything, aside from the huge duty free area, seems like it's stuck in the 1970s. The terminal is just not a very pleasant place... They should've put the money from the check-in area renovation into a new waiting terminal -- that's where everyone spends the most time.