Bellavista Puerto Varas

... even the cone on her head looks like one of Ella Fitzgerald’s wigs. She strutted around the pen, head held high as if to say,”The Queen has arrived make way!” I almost expect her to belt out a verse of “I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues.”

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 ...

... police here are scary looking (ie they have guns) and everyone under the sun (even park rangers) seems to wear stab vests (doesn't inspire confidence, does it?!) but this particular man was the least scary looking police/security man i've ever seen. Wee and with a stab vest that looked like you've put on too big a life jacket and it sticks up to your ears type thing, he kept smiling at us as we waited on the bus. Eventually he spoke to us (well in spanish) and we ...

... 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 ...

... It was not looking very good that we would get off the ship before noon but happily mail to John Heald, many visits to the Purser's desk and a phone call to our Cruise Director, Goose, bore fruit with a promise to get us off the ship as quickly as possible after we received clearance. Our group met in the Morocco lounge, received our tender stickers and Carnival, true to their word, whisked us off the ship before we could say "Bobs-Your-Uncle". The ...

... the cabin to your bathroom but it was just next door) and we were sharing with a lovely Italian women from Milan called Laura. The fourth bed was free which gave us some more space. We went for a wander around the boat and then had a nice dinner in the canteen where we met Marco and Kathrin from Munich. Dinner was very nice. The wake up call in the mornings is at 8 oclock for breakfast so we got up a little earlier to shower and then ...

... Martin Glacier on the foothills of the mountains surrounding Ushuaia and the views were amazing. Ushuaia is officially at the end of the world and we got our obligatory stamps on our passports to prove we were there and the photos like geeks of course! We then headed back on our route to Rio Gallegos to catch a bus to El Calafate which would get us in at 1am. Thankfully the hostel we were staying at had arranged to pick us up on arrival ...

... they seemed to find a quicker way across. In the evening walked along the lake shore to a great restaurant- oysters followed by conger eel stew for Terry and Chupe( a sort of thick crab soup with cheese) for me- absolutely delicious and less than the price of a pizza in London. Back to the hotel to get packed up for our flight to Santiago the next day.

... jonojen ohi rajanylityspaikalta toiselle ja suoraan Aricaan saakka. Nain tyylikkasti Mara ja kassit siis saapuivat Chileen. PS. Espanjan opintomme sujuvat ilmiomaisesti. Valilla tosin kay nainkin: Istutaan Arican biitsikahvilassa ja koitetaan tilata juotavaa. Emilia tavaa tarjoilijatytolle ehka tuhannen kertaa etta saisimmeko carta de bebidas, eli juomalistan, carta de bebidas. car-ta de be-bi-das. Bebidas. Carta. Beber. Perkele. Johon tarjoilija ...