gibraltar ( of course ) , natural disasters , international companies being held to account for bad practices , government leaders re-shuffling cabinets , the odd coup dtat or two , in fact it almost became invisible , except too david and i , as the antonov an-12 that we were sat in the back of ( or rather were going in approximately the same direction as , as with all the vibration we were airborne long before the aircraft had even lifted off from el campo ) circled a patch of desert in the middle of it , it was its first stop on a mystery tour .