Alberto Agostini Puerto Natales

la veille je dors ds un hotel glacial. ns sommes deux: un allemad chrsitoph et moi.
la veille on se trve un restau tard le soir in extremis.
aujcesr recherch dequipemt pour le parc torres del peine: sac de couchage tres chaud et gants obligatoires!
on galere car cest ferie, on trve in extremis avt de prendre notre bus a 1h de laprem pour puerto natales ( cest la ville dou partent les ...

... of leftovers) and the rough seas (we spent 12 hours in the open waters of the Pacific with 40-50 knot winds) easier to take. The scenery was fantastic (pictures to follow soon - if I can find a decent computer) and the Captain was a character (at one point having a heated debate about the fact/fictions of global warming with a 63 year-old Republican from St Louis, whilst steering through channels 80 meters wide, only ...

... We arrived in Turbio which is only 2 hours from Puerto Natales to be told that the border crossing closed a couple of hours beforeand. We had no problem with that thinking we would have no problem getting a hostel or hotel in town. This is 11 pm and i get the Lonely Planet out to see what is the story with this place. There are no listings for hostels or hotels so we ask the lady in the Bus Station if there is any places around. She sends us in direction of hotel ...

... back and forth to Glaciar Grey for outstanding views of the southern Patagonian icefileds. (more or less 5 1/2 hours) Day 2: Walk towards Camping Italiano (2 hours), then back and forth up the Valle Frances (3 1/2 hours) before continuing to Refugio Los Horocones (another 2 hours) Day 3: The easiest day - only 3 hours walk to Refugio Torres / campers could continue up towards the Torres and Refugio Chileno but as it was ...

... all the different wineries in the region. It sounded like a great plan, so we all decided to go. Road trip Unfortunately, all six of us couldn't fit in Efrain's car, so we stopped off at the rental shop. We ended up deciding to rent a Pathfinder that could fit all six of us, so we could drive together. It had the tiniest back bench ever, so we had to squash a little, but we loaded up the car and hit the highway. On the way, some of ...

... a great party, gave me plenty of drinks, and at the same time had me make several speeches! But the people in the group were very cool and interesting and I had a great time with them. I'll be very interested to see what comes of the group in the future. One negative effect of these goodbyes, combined with other factors (the lack of Internet and of a good space heater), is that they kept me away from ...

... beer?! London prices!



Not to be put off and still feeling aggrieved at our 'dry' night yesterday, we found a small bar which served food, so Olly & I shared some empañadas and sheesh kebabs, while Katie had some tomato soup. We all shared a nice big plate of chips and a ...

... de estos dos restaurantes principales. No pudimos resistir las ganas de sentarnos a comer una deliciosa paila de mariscos y un chupe de locos, acompañado de un delicioso vino blanco Carmen Rhin. La comida deliciosa, aunque el chupe no pudo superar aquel que nos comimos en San Pedro, cocinado por nuestro amigo chef, Daniel. De la Plaza fuimos al Cerro Santa Lucia y nuevamente al apto de ...

... nd he*rd me t*king serious liberties with his missus, told him *ll *bout it *nd M*d M unceremoniously kicked her out of the house. Unlucky. It w*s *lso unlucky for M*d M bec*use he h*d * perm*nent reminder of his little pixie th*t I h*d pounded while he w*sn't looking. You see M*d M re*lly did think of her *s his little pixie *nd she loved it when he c*lled her th*t. She loved it so much th*t she drew * little pixie *nd *rr*nged for her ...

... grandparents). It is a big house with a lot of space, and even an upstairs, so nobody is tripping over anyone else ... unless they want to be. I knew I would be comfortable from the moment that I saw my mama. Her eyes wrinkled and she pressed me against her soft shoulder, she looked at me and said "¡Bienvenido, mi niña!" (welcome, my girl). Ahhhh, finally I knew that I found my place in Chile! You can only ...