Hotel Puella Puerto Varas

... were all extremely hungry at this point. After paying for our groceries (cost $10 Mil pesos = $20 USD =$4 per person) we caught a bus to Salto de Petrohue, a National Park about 45 minutes away (cost $4 Mil pesos = $8 round trip). We heard there were beautiful waterfalls and we were anxious to see them. On the bus we talked about our schools and quickly opened our grocery bags and made sandwiches for lunch, drank water and munched on potato chips. It was an ...

... as it took us 12 hours to get to puerto varas and that' not even that far from santiago relative to the rest of the country! Having taken the cheapest taxi ride of our lives (£1) we ended up at a very (very) wooden b&b in a little german looking town called puerto varas. We didn't really know what we were going to do in puerto varas other than look at the perfectly shaped volcano 'osorno'. Which was just as well really as trudy was ill (bug from easter ...

... nacks as well as ships. His house in Santiago is like a boat-low ceilings, narrow rooms with wooden benches, some rooms with port holes, and wood floors that were built to creek like a ship's floor. The house was built as a conglomerate of additions where ...

... for our little car and a couple of times the battery actually popped out and we had to stop to put it back in. However, we made it in one piece only to be attacked by the tobanos as soon as we got out of the car. Tobanos are the horseflies that live lakeside and disappear in February. We suited up and took a tractor up to the trees for our zip lining. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves :) Salmon ...

... channel which you could block up with moss or stone to control the temperature. We arrived cold and shivering late in the evening and found a small kayaking expedition already there but due to leave the next morning, so we had the pools all to ourselves - a little paradise. The expedition´s guide was surprised we were doing on our own and that we´d turned up in such a remote place - his corporate clients had obviously ...

... It was like a mini Berlin! Well not quite, but it did have a very Bavarian looking church, lots of Geman bakeries and hotels called things like Das Boot (they weren´t actually called that but it was something of that ilk). Being Sunday pretty much everything was shut but managed to fnd a cafe open where we got something to eat before heading up to a viewpoint in the hills. There are some beautiful volcanoes around the lakes which are ...

... and immediately sought out the bus company that would take me to Ushuaia, the very Southern tip of Argentina. I found one pretty quickly and was on the bus within 2 hours of booking it which was great. I met a couple of Irish girls from Longford on there and we got chatting and the craic started. They had just arrived in Rio Gallegos too and like me were pretty glad to be getting a bus out of there pretty quick smart. It was the 1st ...

... People began eating apples very quickly - Terry began to worry about a little bag of tea in our luggage that we were given for a present at a previous hotel. Could tea bags have bugs in them? Should he declare them? We all lined up outside a little hut and went in one by one to identify our luggage- the fact that it was there at all was a ...

... koska mirella ehti ostopaatokseen ensin, on hanella myos etukaytto-oikeus kyseiseen paahineeseen (yhdessa EI ne paassa liikuta). mutta stetsonihan on osoittautunut aivan assaksi asusteeksi yhdistettyna mirellan panamasta hankittuun oranssiin vaatekappaleeseen joka on kasittaakseni paita mutta jota voi myos nakojaan menestyksekkaasti kayttaa ilman housuja eli mekkona. kyseinen mekko/stetsoni/aurinkolasi-kombo (kokonaishinta noin 5 euroa) saa mirellan eittamatta nayttamaan varsin ...

... dare to look or talk to me after that! Grrrr But we had a couple of nice days chilling by the lake and having a really tasty lunch. One thing we did learn there - never buy cheap meals as they are **** - we had chicken and chips and we felt ill whilst eating it as it was that vile! Yuk! We did have a treat the 1st night though - fajitas! myummyyy!