Hotel Alborada Concepcion

It is amazing how quickly you can grow roots when you travel, how fast a group of friends can develop and how familiar a place can seem after a few days... coming back to santiago was like that. Despite a love hate city relationship it was actually great to be back. we met up also with a few of the people from Mendoza as it was one of their birt...

We verlaten het merengebied en gaan verder met onze tocht naar het noorden, via de rio Bio Bio naar Concepcion, de tweede grootste stad van Chile waar we een afspraak hebben met Dania, een weerzien voor Constanza 18 jaar later. Een kort bezoek aan de stad, enorm druk. Daarna samen met Dania haar familie een gezellige avond met lekker (en veel) e...

We left our little peace of paradise in the countryside and headed to Concepion, which was a little colder than Talca, but as we are going south that is to be expected! It took a bit of walking around with our heavy rucksacks in the centre of town before we found a hostel to stay in, as the one in the lonely planet seems to have shut down some t...

With just a little trepidation I looked out over the waiting crowd for Ricardo. Would he be very different after 20 years? No. Just the same. My short hair caused a moment of hesitation from the other side of the glass but no more than that. Where do you start after being out of contact with one of the most important people of your university ye...

My luggage has arrived, yippee! I had to buy some emergency clothes to survive the last few days but i now have my bad and everything that i put in it. This is very good. I had a lovely time at Lake Lanalhue (a lake about 3 hours drive south of Conception) we stayed in a cabin with amazing views of the lake and i got to go canoing on the lake wh...

Concepcion war immer noch verregnet und kalt. Keine Lust da zu bleiben und Isla Mocha waere auch zu teuer gewesen und zu kalt und zu regnerisch und zu baeh! Ich will jetzt in den Norden! Und ich hab schlechte Laune weil ich so vollgeregnet bin und einfach nicht trockne... und weil sich immer dicke Menschen neben mich im Bus setzen und schnarchen...

hey, die letzte woche concepcion und damit as ende mein** zweiten reiseetappe hat begonnen. es ist noch viel zu organisi**en bevor es losgeht. bei meinem praktikum muss ich eine endpraesentation halten und noch die ein od** and**e arbeit einreichen. und dann beginnt am wochenende auch noch die EM. sehr gut, dass es auch im chilenischen f**nsehen...

I can't believe that several people have actually emailed me saying that I need to do an update to the blog- I didn't know that people were actually reading this! With that being said, sorry for the lack of updates, but unfortunately, there haven't been a lot of new things going on. I think that's because the last month has been less of a vacati...

I think it's been over a week since my last entry, so I'll try to catch you all up on what's been going on! Last Saturday, I spent the day doing as many touristy activities as I could in Santiago. Luckily, the metro system is very easy and efficient, so I was able to cover a lot of ground. I managed to check out a couple of museums, climb el Cer...

We heard that Conception was the place to go out on a Sat night so we made sure we got there for the weekend. The cheapest accomodation we could find was about$17-18 a night which prob doesn't sound that bad but is a complete rip off in my mind. Didn't even have breakfast included. Tight Asses. Anyway, we go out and grab some beers for a pre dri...