Hotel Puelche Puerto Varas

... even the cone on her head looks like one of Ella Fitzgerald&#8217;s wigs. She strutted around the pen, head held high as if to say,&#8221;The Queen has arrived make way!&#8221; I almost expect her to belt out a verse of &#8220;I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues.&#8221;<br><br>We leave the house and decide to take a walk to the local grocery store, Santa Isabel, to buy lunch. It was a smart choice because eating at a restaurant would be more expensive, and ...

... escozia':-) we had a nice wee conversation about puerto varas and he even waited until we were on the bus and then waved us off. Start of a good night I though. We ended up on a 'semi-cama' double decker bus which turned out to have seats which almost went to beds and a nice wee man who gave you blankets and pillows, a wee snack box and best of all-you got a film and ours turned out to be national treasure 2 in english! Really it's just as well the buses are good ...

... had a great sense of humor and was good friends and drinking buddies with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Picasso, and other eccentrics of the like. (You know Neruda liked his drinking time because this house had more bars than bedrooms!) He had a love for ...

... over Antartica, so sunblock was essential! Also, the sun was out late and it was light out until 10PM or so every night. We had a quick lunch and went to the tourist office where we set up a trip to go zip lining at a place called "Las Cascadas" around the lake, closer to the Osorno volcano. The girl at the tourist office told Pete the roads were "a little rough" to get there. A little rough was an ...

... the wind we had to get up at 4am and paddle during the windless calm of the morning. Definitely a few days to remember from our Patagonian adventures. And we´ve built some fine shoulder muscles too! We did find some thermal pools up one fiord (Cahuelmo) which were very relaxing - so much so that we stayed an extra day there. There were about 7 pools cut out of the volcanic rock, each pool supplied with hot water via a ...

... well Rob´s mostly). Got some money out and went on the internet for a bit. A very quiet day. On Sunday we got up early and got a collectivo (minibus) to Puerto Varas, a little town just north of Puerto Montt that is well known for it´s German connections. The city was formed in 1845 and the interior minister of the time offered land to mostly German speaking Europeans such as Swiss, Austrians and of course Germans, to settle and farm the ...

Hello hello again, I've had a busy last couple of weeks and only now really getting a chance to update the blog. I've been trekking quite a lot, walking on glaciers and drinking whiskey and been on a 4 day boat trip up the coast of Chile. I left Commodoro after a 12 hour stopover which was great because I got a chance to get some much needed kip in after a pretty shocking bus journey from Bariloche the night before. I arrived in Rio ...

... het zuiden). Ik ben samen met Kathy en Cory uit de US naar Puerto Varas gegaan. Dit is een kleiner, properder havenstadje dan Puerto Montt. Hier ga ik mijn blog helemaal bijwerken en de bus naar Pucón regelen. Samen met de meisjes zit ik opnieuw in een leuk hostelletje. Vanuit de stad zie je de vulkaan Osorno. Eerst wilde ik die beklimmen voor ik naar Pucón ga, maar in Pucón ga ik ook al een vulkaan beklimmen. Eentje is wel voldoende, denk ik. Vanavond ga ik lekker zelf koken.

... kun sorssimme aikataulumme ja jouduimme vekslaamaan loppulennot uusiksi. mutta kaikki hyvin taas. vahempi aikaa riossa ja buenosissa, enempi chilessa. pakko viela mainita miljoonaperija-makila. olimme aricassa paivana kauniina ja ostimme enempi tai vahempi virkatut stetsonit. en tieda mika noista aiheuttaa mutta ehka sama joka on pakottanut ostamaan ne naurava-nakki-alushousut, rapupehmofrisbeen (ei MITAAN kayttoa matkalla) ja 13 paria korvakoruja vaikkei edes reikia korvissa ...

... t nice either as one couple laughed at us for spending 2 months taking our time in Argentina and Chile - instead of what they were doing zipping through South America to say done this, done that... and there were these girls from Quebec *****ing about us in French but I understood everything hehe!!! So I asked them something in perfect French, they ...