Back into Santiago and again into the Casa Rojo. How Iīve missed this place. Gaetan is still here waiting to get a flight to LA (he is in fact in the bunk below me) but it seems that the Dengue Fever kid appears to have finally moved on. I have dinner with some of the Pachamama  survivors next door in the excellent Platipus r...

Hola. Our two days in Santiago were a welcome rest after an 11 hour flight from Auckland. Things started off well as we were able to use our basic Spanish to get a bus from the airport to the city, and get tickets on the Metro to the stop closest to our hotel. It was a warm 21 degrees and very bright despite the smog around the hills. Unfortunat...

Arrived back in Santiago and spent the day doing some of the things we didn`t have time to do last week . We went to La Chascona, one of Pablo Neruda`s houses - the famous Nobel Prize winning poet and communist.  Next day we caught the bus and headed towards northern Chile...

Hola! First of all, happy birthday Joe, have a good one, and happy belated birthday to my beautiful neice, Daisy! And keeping with in the theme of birthdays, Fee had a great one in Santiago. She usually moans that its far too close to New Year for anyone to make a fuss about her but as usual I tried! I got up at 7.30am to go buy some candles and...

Spent paddys day in Chile Santiago. The great thing about Chile is that they celebrate paddys day for 3 days so it was easy to fit in. Had a blast and stayed in a really chilled out hostel called the chilli hostel. Pick up a new dice game there called ambisouso, in eng - ambitous.

Awoke a little later due to the previous evenings festivities.  The truck arrived this afternoon and we are all going to Water for Chocolate tonight for Simons 30th birthday celebration.  Have spent the day just crusing around with all the other millions of Chileans trying to do christmas shopping. 

Hola! I arrived in Santiago this morning. Thanks to my dadīs friend Claudia, I had a lovely red eye flight on first class! Last piece of luxury for a while. I savored it. I slept much better than usual on airplanes... I arrived in Santiago airport, paid my taxes, and after some searching, found my party from YWAM. 4 members of the mission arrive...

It had been 34 days of intense travel since I had left Buenos Aires a month back. I could tell my body was getting tired. In my last few days I had gotten another sinus infection (a life-long problem of mine) and I was quite ready for some slow-paced relaxation. My solution - Santiago, Chile. I was fortunate to find a friend-of-a-friend to crash...