The past weekend here I have been in Chileīs capital, Santiago.  After spending a couple of 'muey tranquillo' semaņas a Playa Ritoque, itīs quite the culture shock to live the metropolitan, busy-bee lifestyle in a monstrous city like Santiago.  The first day I was actually afraid to leave the hostel!&...

The original plan for Santiago was to spend two weeks in separate hostels while we both went to Spanish classes (and because we needed a little break from each other after being together 24/7 for over 4 months). Well...it didn't quite happen like that. I probably should have listened to David at the start when he thought it wasn't the best idea ...

In the words of the late, great food-dodger Karen Carpenter Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down. Fortunately it wasn't raining this Monday as I purchased my ticket to ride the bus to the airport in Auckland. I wasn't sure how long the flight to Santiago would take ju...

The journey over the border was a stunning as it had been on the way over, although this time a managed to take slightly less photos through the window.  We did seem to stop at a different building for passport control, which was slightly surprising, not that it bothered me too much.  Once off the bus I got a taxi to Bellavista and La ...

Our plane from Punta Arenas to Santiago do Chile was to leave at 2pm so we took our time around Punta Arenas for the last time. After packing everything up in the morning, we went for a walk, this time filming and taking more pictures of the city. If you dont remember, this was actually my first time visiting the city, since Jarrett visit it by ...

Jarrett was up early to see if we could get any tour for the day, but there was nothing available. Most of the tours were 2 to more days of travelling, or they required at least 4-5 people. Well, there were only the two of us. We tried something else for tomorrow but no luck... the max we did was to put our names in a list in the case more ...

No tours... NO TOURS...so we did laundry!hahah :( Seriously, the list that our names were in was also cancelled, so we had to find other stuff to do and laundry was our first idea...so we find a place and then we were off to visit some of Santiago sightseeing spots. We visited the Park Santa Lucia, where there is a fort up ...

The 2nd of May turned out to be the longest day we have ever experienced. Flying from New Zealand to Chile, we left Auckland on the 2nd May at 5pm and arrived after an 11 hour flight in Santiago at 12 midday still on the 2nd May, crossing the International Date Line and going back in time! Talk about mess with your head.   We lan...

Still feeling the effects of alcohol and jetlag, we set off around the city to explore. Santiago is a city with a lot of character and changing faces. Walking around Barrio Bellavista, you are confronted with multi-coloured houses and graffiti covering most walls. Not the type of graffiti in the UK with people writing tags and "Tracy and Dave fo...

Hello everyone....only me! Well, here we are in Santiago, Chile, and at the end of my South America adventure! What an amazing city to finish off in! Anyway, I'll get to all that later, first I need to update you on what's been going on since I left you a couple of weeks ago. Well I arrived in Arequipa, south Peru, and at my hostel, which...