Hello everyone....only me! Well, here we are in Santiago, Chile, and at the end of my South America adventure! What an amazing city to finish off in! Anyway, I'll get to all that later, first I need to update you on what's been going on since I left you a couple of weeks ago. Well I arrived in Arequipa, south Peru, and at my hostel, which to be ...

Back. Hey there folks.  I am writing this entry back in Santiago where the fast connection allows me to upload pictures for all of you whiners to see.  The last week was spent in Chilean and Argentinean Patagonia taking in the scenery and hardcore weather.  I was lucky enough to have a travel companion for this part of the trip in...

Got a taxi after I changed money (I won`t tell you how much it cost otherwise my teeth will grind!) to the Barrio Paris and Londres, which area, coincidently, happened to be across the main road (tiny bit further away from the city centre) where I stayed with Tucan in a hotel so I knew where I was right away.  However, all I wanted to do wa...

This morning we booked a half day city tour with aboutchile.com, organised through our hotel. We were told there would be 3 of us, but in the end it was just the 2 of us (which made it slightly more expensive at $98). It was worth it though, as it was more personal. We had a guide (Chris) and a driver in a big MPV. The tour took us to Saint Luci...

Nothing too exciting has been happening lately so I thought I'd blog about what I usually do in Santiago on a day-to-day basis (aren't you excited?!...I can't believe you read this stuff). So usually, I get up at 8am. I never have to set my alarm clock because that's when the construction workers at the building across the street start working, ...

Nur zwei Tage Chile. Ganz schoen kurz. Wir wohnen in einem ganz schoenen Hostel mitten im Zentrum. Vom hier ist alles schnell und einfach zu Fuss zu erreichen. Die erste Nacht haben wir beiden nicht so gut geschlafen. Der 11 Std. Flug macht uns sehr zu schaffen und so sind wir am ersten Nachmittag nicht allzu sehr motiviert. Es regnt in Stroemen...

We left Maryam in Buenos Aires International airport where she caught her flight to London and we headed on to Santiago. On the first evening we settled into our hostel, spent the evening exploring and then had dinner in a typically Brazilian restaurant...ironically! We decided the best way to see the city was to go on a...

The original plan for Santiago was to spend two weeks in separate hostels while we both went to Spanish classes (and because we needed a little break from each other after being together 24/7 for over 4 months). Well...it didn't quite happen like that. I probably should have listened to David at the start when he thought it wasn't the best idea ...

Thatīs right, we bought a bus! This 1979 VW bus is actually Brazilian made but serves us just as well as a German one would. Two friends, david and Dean, and I decided that one way we could get to know this country a whole lot better is to buy a car and navigate the highways and roads to whatever city we desired, of course barring the extreme st...

You know you are back in a civilised city when: · There aren't any dodgy guys trying to give you a ride from the airport - just official taxis and shuttles, in real taxi stands. · The guy at the hotel reception looks surprised when you ask him if there is hot water and if it's available 24hrs a day - a "why do you ask?" sort of reaction ("Hay a...