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Living on the Farm
... short for San Francisco), plays in the open air kitchen including wood fire oven, whilst breakfast is prepared by Nona Irma and her daughter. Fresh eggs, (still warm), and all organic ingredients for breakfast, whilst the wild pigs snort and scavage around outside and hens wonder past the door, with a view for miles to the volcano, make this a very hypnotic place to live.
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We wish you a merry un-christmas
... s excitement, but these are the prices I pay to follow my dreams around the world I guess....
Sun sets at 9 here, so by this time we were pretty hungry so went home to cook some pretty plain pasta for dinner and have a bevvie or two before bed.
Certainly not a traditional Christmas (in fact I don't think I've ever eaten pasta on Xmas day before!!) but certainly a beautiful day.
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Making cookies
... they weren't using enough flour so their's were sticking to the table.
Whilst they were cooking the kids watched a short Christmas movie whilst we had some wine. Then we iced the cookies.
I hand cut a heart for Darren and hen iced it with bright pink icing sugar and pink sparkly sprinkles.
A great night :-)
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Flat tyres, Volcano sleds and lots of bruises
... only to find out youre now gonna go down again on yer ****!!
Pros: Beautiful fruit, endless outdoor sports and acitivites, easy to navigate, friendly and welcoming locals.
Cons: The everlasting threat of burning alive in lava with the volcano lurking over the town. (every day at 12 a huge alarm bell rings in the town to test it for evacuations! quite terrifying the first time you hear it, and start to dart towards the nearest exit.
Next: Couch surfing in Santiago
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Feeling Chile
... prevent us falling from the cliff face was a pick axe, which itself could have caused more harm than good.
Finally we arrived at the top, to be met by the chilliest, iciest cold wind, and we were told to use everything in the bag to keep us warm. Once we were fully kitted out, we took on the awesome ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Del Lago Hotel


