La Serena Club Resort

... be fair the beach was lovely and huge with lovely sand but there was just nothing there so we took the long boring walk back!<br><br>The next day we went on a tour to the Isla Damas to see penguins and sealions. It had to be one of the coldest days, I had on about 2 jumpers, scarf and my waterproof and was still freezing (although we have been told the next day was gorgoeus and sunny, hmm thanks for that...)!<br>However it ...

Maria's homemade pisco sour<br><br>Buy:<br>1lb lemons<br>1 egg<br>powdered and regular sugar<br>Pisco, preferably 40%<br><br>Squeeze the lemons to get 1/2 glass lemon juice. Put in a blender with about one tablespoon of egg white, about 4 tablespoon of powdered sugar, about one teaspoon of regular sugar, 12 ice cubes and 350 ml (1 1/2 C) Pisco. Serves 4.

... garden store, a mega home improvement store and mega supermarket.. And the people were all behaving like Australians, walking around slowly and dumbly with their shopping, mothers with horrible screaming spoilt kids, people eating too many burgers and ice creams and stacking on the kilos... In some ways it really felt like I had left all I was used to and entered a new kind of wild, a wild of parking lots, and mazda 3s and giant shopping trolleys and 20 different types of beer ...

... females also waiting for their buses. Ahh ... memories of Spain ... Interesting to note that in many Chilean stores/bakeries/fast food joints, they have a system set up where you first pay for your items, then present the receipt to another employee, who then gives you the goods. Not sure if it was for security purposes in this case, because the cashier was in a space enclosed by glass. Off to La Serena - much is made about the luxurious ...

... South is the Lake District which I will write about in my next blog entry as I'm going there when Pete comes to visit. The Lake District has (obviously) many lakes, an active volcano belt (currently 55 active volcanoes) and a large German influence. The far south is where I will be going in late January to Punta Arenas, the southernmost city of its size in the world and the gateway to the Chilean Antarctic. A bit ...

... s'està supertranquil. Ens recorrem al centre -down town- ja que no queda gaire lluny del nostre hostal. Fa una caloreta, i un solet! La majoria dels establiments estan tancats, doncs, anem una estona a un internet-cafè per buscar informació sobre futures excursions al sud de Xile -ja veureu més endavant- esperem que ho poguem fer-. Són les 6h! Hora de sopar!!! Ens trobem a l'hostal amb en Giovanni i la Sabine. Anem a donar una volta a la plaza de Armas, xerrem ...

... through the smog! Also the locals spend their week nights dancing in the square, and we got a particularly good view of some traditional dancing (think Morris dancing with hankies instead of the sticks) much more fun than Tango! So we're starting to move on a bit quicker now and left Santiago for Valparaiso the following day (according to the Lonely Planet, one of the best 5 cities in South America), but although it's a pretty cool place it's not ...

... take it easy´tend to suffer the most´considering i walk, talk and eat way too fat, and get too excited most of the time for my own good i probably will be having to be rushed straight to the nearest hospital to be chucked into a compression tank!! not to worry you guys, i´ll try my hardest to slow down lol anyway guys i have broken the seal and i am dying too go pee, no toilets here! Pray that i survive the extreme temperatures and altitude!!! Love you guys mucho!!! xxxx

... Anja wins a bingo game and have whiskey for everybody. As soon as we reach Puerto Montt we see the smoke from the volcano "Chaiten", 200 km south, so it´s time to leave this place for a more quiet one, La Serena. Alter another 12 hour or so by bus, we got here and relax a little bit. But we go on.......... // Menuda vuelta que hemos dado! Desde el ultimo capitulo hemos bajado hasta casi la punta del mapa de Sudamerica para luego remontar hasta La Serena, donde estamos ...

... and went to the movies to see License to Wed with Robin Williams, which was pretty funny. After that, and an excess of sweet popcorn and coke, we went to our hotel to drink some more coke - but this time mixed in RUM!! <br><br>I phoned all the guys I knew in La Serena to see what they were up to that night. Nobody had plans made by that time, but we ended up going to the nearby beachtown of Tongoy, about 45 minutes drive from La Serena. We went to this concert held in ...