Apart Hotel La Goleta La Serena

... de moi, commence a etre un peu gai, et oui cest la sortie de luniversite et du colegio, on est vendredi, et ose venir maborder pour me demander ce que jecrivais, intrigues
je goute mon premier verre de vin chilien, je leur offre la maoitie de mes fraises et cest parti pour une tres bonne soiree sur la playa
pas trs tard qd meme car a 8h la moitie rentre chez eux, 2 vomis...
reste une chilienne de 21 ans , un chilien de 24 et un autre de 20 ans
tres tres sympa
La Serena, Coquimbo, Chile pepsouille

... to see Lorna dash down there because you know what she's like when free food is available, but bless her, she restrained herself! When we arrived in La Serena we headed straight for the beach. It was a really nice beach area and a fantastic surf. We went and chilled down there for a few hours and took a dip in the clear blue sea. The good thing is, it doesn't get dark in Chile until after 8pm (in the summer), and the temperature doesn't fall either, so you get plenty of time ...

... de jolies places et des eglises de type colonial. Puis nous allons ensemble sur la plage. C'est une grande plage avec des vagues et des surfeurs. Le soir des pelicans survolent le rivage et plongent dans la mer avant de resortir le bec alourdi de leur prise. Il fait bon et cette ville de la cote est moins bondee que Viña ou Valparaiso et c'est plutot agreable.

... and distributes 35 000 copies every 45 days. They are here to report and collect information on the Dakar Rally. We share food and drinks and talk about .......you guessed it motorcycles. January 12th. We are off to a slow start this morning.... we still have no conclusive information about where the racers will be driving. Juan suggests we go with him because he has a press pass. We agree but first Juan notices the oil in his bike is low, it seems his burns ...

... t know if I should outrun it, go round or just kick the **** out of him. Got pulled over by the police in Zapallar, I was going up a one way street how the **** did I know, haven´t been here before. From Papudo went to Los Vilos and had seafood lunch across from the beach( see photo). Los Vilos to La Serena was pretty boring, back on the autobahn, toll boths again. The scenary was still changing but getting more arid with less vegetation and more cactii but with ...

... 7 pounds I now have lost all that I had grown and have a bob (well sort of), thanks again mum I DO appreciate it honest!! Then it was our final night bus to our FINAL destination on our Kumuka tour and the end of our magnificent trip. Chile's capital city - Santiago was the place where the last 33 days would sadly be over. Boarding our night bus which was a dreaded double-decker, it was valium unfortunately for me to deal with the 8 hour journey and at 6.30am we pulled into the city.

... be honest, but we had ok weather with it staying crisp and dry, lots of drunken nights and not much sense, but we had 2 farewell parties for 4 of the group, Ben and Soph and Debs and Mandy!!! Then we had to Welcome the new guys, a couple which are known to me as the twins as they look so similar!!! and Jonathan and David who i aptly named Jesus (the beard does it!) and sonic as in the hedgehog (because his hair sticks up lol) they are all from england and seem really ...

What a loop we´ve made! Since last chapter we went south near the tip of South America and then back north up to La Serena where we are now, closer to Peru and Bolivia, our next countries. We were in San Martin de los Andes, and alter a nice BBQ departed to Bariloche, same kind of town and explored the surrounding lakes and mountains. Also tasted the famous local chocolate, delicious. We leave the Lake District and head south on a 36 hour bus jouney. We´ve never done it ...

... opportunity this time, as I had plenty of time on my hands, and go check it out. It was rather disapointing, actually - or maybe my eye sight is just so poor. Because seeing the stars from the observatory's telescope was pretty much the same as seeing them when I was in Antuco National Park in the south of Chile in 2001, which is at high altitudes - in anything, Antuco was more impressive. We did see Saturnus though, but I had also seen that before, just as clearly, with a small-ish ...

... La Serena for the Fiestas Patrias. I didn't have any numbers to call, either, but remembered the hotel me and my ex-boyfriend had stayed at in 2001 so I SMS'd my good friend Rodrigo, who I knew would be nearby a computer to google the phone number, and I got an answer shortly after. So I called the hotel around 22:00. The connection was constantly breaking up, I had to call them again and again, but eventually managed to ask them if they had vacancy. And luck strikes us ...