Start of a journey

Hi everyone. This blog - though I've been known as the arch enemy of all things bloggy - has been set up by me as a kind of diary of my trip to Bolivia, for my friends to see how exciting my travelling life is (or not). I hope that people will write to me and that humorous comments will be lovingly posted all round (hopefully not at my expense).
So, the trip starts tomorrow night. Iberia is having pilot strikes and our flight is not affected, which is good. If Opodo is mistaken about this, the blog may be written entirely from an airport.