Diego De Almagro Aeropuerto Santiago

... woman he was having an affair with during this second marriage. How romantic, right? But the house and the collection of random stuff in it was one of the coolest experiences of the trip. I also visited La Moneda which is the presidential palace that was bombed in 1973 when Pinochet took power in a coup. The period of Pinochet's dictatorship still brings up sad memories for many Chileans well at least the ones who didn't support him and his mass killings of anyone considered ...

... 8211; Empanadas (so good)!The 2 girls the lads had met were tagging along with us, their names were Fran & Hanna so yeah was very funny trying tell which Fran people were talking too(not).

All the shops would all be the same on particular roads , so u would get clumps of Bureau de change shops, car part shops etc so that was annoying trying to find supermarkets and all.

There is so many stray dogs around that we decided we would bring a pet dog called Scrappy on ...

... artefacts from the whole of South America, from the Incas, the Aztecs, the Mapuche peoples and many other tribes and groups of people and it helped us to piece together a jumbled history of South America. Some of the artefacts were just fantastically preserved, and some things were so interesting - they had some gold brooches made approx 1500 years ago that were really intricate bird-men and they were made by making a wax model of the ...

... were only carrying the bare essentials on us and even then that they were out of sight. We were all feeling a little scared about being mugged so took every precaution to prevent this from happening. After grabbing something to eat we went to the petrol station for some water before returning to the hostel. Our 1st venture out was successful, now all we had to do was repeat this for every other trip out in public. We checked out the hostel and met some people, Daniel ...

... in a plastic bag in my locker as I thought it would do for breakfast tomorrow before I leave for the airport. I would probably be too early for breakfast at the hostel so it was best to have a back-up plan ;-) Had a wander around the local area trying to find somewhere to buy an adapter as it's a different kind of pin here, it's 3 round ones in a row. In the end I gave up and went back to the hostel to type up a couple of days journal that I'd missed. There ...

... site with amazing old Funiclar cars going up the various hills, some built by the Brits back in 1889. We did an interesting walk through the British, German & Yugoslavian areas with the archetecture changing from colourfil corrugated houses to Germanic mansions set high on the hills. There were Anglican, Lutheran & Catholic churches almost in the same street & below the busy port was full of activity as containers were being ...

... until 8 at night. I've been there when the babies wake up, and when they go to sleep. Last Thursday a new baby, "Juan" came, who had been left alone during a large portion of the day for several months while his parent worked. He is really independent and not nearly as clingy as the other babies. Yesterday after being at the hogar most of the day I had to make a trip to the doctor with one of the other babies. Apparently as soon as I ...

... walk around the area and did a little shopping - then we headed over to Bellavista where we shopped at Patio Bellavista and then had dinner at Como Agua para Chocolate - Like Water for Chocolate. The meal was excellent and then after dinner we walked around a bit and then figured we should head back to the ship - as we had a 2 hour drive ahead of us. We made it back by midnight. The next day we had asked Glen and Roseann if they wanted ...

... probably at Santiago bus station at 6am. Yes 6am. Another false economy. Because we couldn´t check into our new hostal until 12 midday. That was 27 hours outside inside living. But sod the moaning. The ride was excellent. Liza stayed awake for the first half, largely due to the drivers idiotic decision to play the film Free Willy (or something about a ...

... couldn't eat.

The main problem was that I simply hadn´t brought that much cash out, so I had to walk all the way back to the hostel to get more money so that we could settle the food bill! Katie complained that she had to sit there like a lemon, but I'd rather do that than trek back to the hostel!

In the end we paid a lot for very little, but at least the food was tasty.

We're quite sad to leave Chile ...