South America, Santiago, Chile - a whole new continent, country and city to go at! We set off from our hostel in New Zealand at one o´clock in the afternoon on 1 May and, thanks to the International Date Line, arrived in Santiago at twelve in the afternoon on the same day.  Weird, eh?  The flight was uneventful, with Em snatching bits ...

Todays blog is centred on food. In santiago you can get the very best and the unfortunate worst. Empamadas come in two varieties. The completa is a completa load of shit, it comprises of a coles grade viena wrapped in pastry. The real empamada is a concoction of cabbage, bacon, lamb? an olive and an egg?  and it is a wonderful treat to the ...

  Well after the unexpected massive boozie night in Temuco the bus ride to Santiago was just a bit of a blur!!! We arrived first thing in the morning and too early of the City Metro railway to speed us in to the centre. Still sitting still and staring into space suited us quite well at that time.   The Metro was great and easy to use a...

Soooooooo the Wallabies lost to England in the world cup hey? One might ask themselves how we would know this information all the way overe here in Chile, but isn´t it obvious? We watched it on the big screen in Santiago´s only Írish pub, Flannery´s. It was like stepping into another world; Carlsberg beer at 9am, Irish decor and about 50 or so E...

6,300 miles later and I'm now in the beautiful city of Santiago, Chile! I arrived last night and words cannot describe how excited I am to be here. This trip is not just a site-seeing vacation, but also a journey of self-actualization, personal insight and discovery, blah blah blah. Lofty goals, I know, but for those of you that have read "The A...

Santiago, name sake of San Diego, was originally named after part of a whale. That´s if you believe news anchorman Ron Burgandy. Otherwise its the capital of Chile and we have no idea where the name came from, a saint possibly. Our initial impression of the place was a bit rough but after 3 days exploring we found it was really nice. There are l...

We got to Santiago and found our hostel very quickly in the Barrio Brasil area. It was our first time making it out of the bus station after our third time visiting. Its not an very nice city, all very concrete and ugly, although the shopping is good, not that I had a chance to sample it though! We spent the two days walking the streets, up to a...

Hallo vrienden en Familie!!! Ik weet dat ik de site niet erg goed bij hou. De foto's van Australie zijn er nu allemaal op dus daar moeten jullie het mee doen, ik geloof dat het zo'n 400 foto's zijn ;) Op dit moment ben ik in Chili Santiago in het huis van de tante van daniela. We hebben de eerste maand in Chili vooral in Viña doorgebracht. Veel ...

My friend Kaisa came to visit me to Buenos Aires, my new home and subsequently I paid a visit to her new home, Santiago de Chile.

We´d left Auckland at 6pm New Zealand time on the 26th October, endured a 12 hour flight, and landed in Chile at 2.30pm local time on the same day which played havoc with our body clocks. Our introduction to South America was a pretty relaxed one and we spent most of our 2 days in Santiago either sleeping or walking around in a jet-lagged daze. ...