Costa Real Hotel La Serena

... through on the way back so we stopped at another bar and had a beer while watching the sun go down...this is becoming a bit of a habit of ours!!!!! Ha!!!!<br><br>We learnt a very important lesson when we got back to the hotel.....even though it´s cloudy, you still get sunburnt in Chile!!!!!! Whoops. Don´t tell mum!!!!!<br><br>Anyway, off to Santiago tomorrow and we are both looking forward to that. <br><br>Blog you later<br><br>Kate and Mark

... incapable de montrer mes emotions.. c'est plus tard pendant notre tour a l'observatoire et en regardant les etoiles que je me demande si il peut me voir en ce moment et la les larmes coulent sur mes joues. je peux enfin vider un peu ces emotions.... le reste et bien le reste me parait un peu insipide ici...... nous passons deux jours sur la plage a se dorer un peu pendant que les hommes du groupe essaient de prendre les vagues avec leur surf.... et puis c'est tout....

... highway and wait over an hour for our friends to join us. We head back with Juan and the police allow us through. We cannot gain access to the campsite itself because we don't have the special press passes like Juan has but we are much closer to the tent city than the general public is allowed. We stand there for several hours as the motorcyclists,big trucks, ATV's etc..... drive past us. The drivers honking their horn's and the fans cheering them on. It was a ...

... this summer! I had some difficulties sleeping tonight, as I've been quite sad today - though I'm not a religious man, I've recently been attending worship the past several Sundays. This would be the first Sunday in quite some time that I missed it. What exactly have I been worshiping? A show on PBS, entitled "Spain: On the Road Again". It's basically a culinary tour through Spain, but what exactly is it about this show that I worship? The food? No ...

... taste for dulce de leche (a very sweet caramel spread) which needs to be stopped!). Quite a nice town, very modern with plenty of supermarkets and even shopping malls which was nice to be around. Very strange to see shops displaying 'Summer '09' in the windows; I thought it was just a hot winter this year! Went to the beach a few times which ...

... on this bus due to claustrophobia/ heat and badly translating at 4am to the driver in my Spanish that the bus was 'mucho caliente' which in all our other Spanish speaking countries means 'too hot' whereas here embarrassingly means 'hot' as in 'sexy hot' so basically I told him he had a 'sexy bus,' to which he let me sit in the front next to him, eeek!! Anyway, finally 18 hours later we arrived very tired at La Serena, a beach coastal town. With the sun rising the landscape had ...

Hi guys Its been agggesssssssssssss! I cant really remember where i left off, im thinking it was Puerto Varras but im a little excitable and tipsy from watching spain kick ass in the euro cup final...oh and the beer, Germany finally got a taste of their own medicine! Yey so i havent written for ages, but i have many an excuse, like 2 night buses and man flu (even though im a woman, it really takes it out of me!!!) Anyway Pueto Varras was cool, literally i nearly froze ...

... l'auberge. I, une francaise de 30 ans, partie de chez ses parents a 16 ans, et qui a vecu dans la rue pendant 10 ans, notamment dans des cgaes d'escalier, avant de se trouver des vrais potes et un squat dans les Alpes ou elle habite avec ses amis, dans son camion. Apres des annees de galere, I. se paie ses premieres vacances, 2 mois en Amerique du Sud et c'est fantastique de voir quelqu'un profiter aussi sincerement. Plein de bonheur pour toi, I.

... some more and listened to music, until we went to the beach again, but this time the Penuelas sector in La Serena, which is where Cuatro Esquinas and Avenida del Mar meet - it's where all the discos are and the casino. So we did some club hopping - Kamanga and Kamikaze which are the favourites - which then closed, so we went to another person's house, to keep on drinking... another day drinking until late morning. Oh my.<br><br>Touristy Stuff<br>But it wasn't ALL drinking there ...

... at the juntion of the sea avenue of Antofagasta and the road leading out of town. We laid down our bags and I stuck my finger out, in hope for a ride. ****, man! I thought. This is going to take us the whole day. The girls were thinking the same. We were thinking about starting walking towards the gas station, but I explained to the girls that the place we were at that very moment was actually quite good - just outside of a roundabout so the cars weren't driving so ...