After our first few days in Santiago, we moved to the hotel we could afford, near the center of the city. From there we explored the neighborhoods and the museums, etc. Some of the pictures you will see are from the park in the center of the city, called Cerro Santa Lucia, its a little mountain that you can walk up to get a good view of the city...

Santiagon visiitti alkoi aivan kuin kunnon kaupunkiloman kuuluukin. Nyt on sitten kiivetty nakoalapaikalle, kayskennelty kaduilla ja aukioilla, kayty kaupoissa ja vierailtu Museo di Arte Precolombinossa. Hostellin valinnan kanssa kavi todella hyva tuuri. Paikka on oikein mukava ja Bellavistan kaupunginosa on todella sympaattinen h...

ĦHola! We arrived in Santiago this morning at around 9:30 after an all night bus trip. Darlene hates the constriction of the bus. I think that it is a relatively cheap way to travel. I got a decent night´s sleep, though not great. Darlene hated it. We had better seats this time, the trick is to get super-cami or salon-cami seats. They recline mo...

I´ve been in Santiago 5 days now and it´s been great so far! My first impressions weren´t so good because I stayed at a Best Western in downtown Santiago the first night. Unlike a lot of Latin American cities, the downtown here is not so nice and people keep telling me not to go there. In downtown there are beautiful old immense Spanish bui...

Without traffic (4.30am on a Saturday morning), the same 20km to arrive at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos airport took only 20 minutes, much shorter than the 3.5 hours the day before.  Crazy.  Our Swissair flight from Zurich had already landed and was already waiting for us when we arrived at the airport. We caught up on our sleep on the w...

Day 17 - In Auckland and it's a rest day before Josh's birthday and our flight to Santiago. It's agreed that Liz will try to get some rest before the crucial flight whilst the lads go into the city - this entails a bus ride from close to the hotel - it's not a great distance but roads in Auckland are very congested and it ends up taking an hour ...

The start of our 9 months (hopefully anyway!) in South America.

1. Ohio likes to holiday in Santiago 2. Chile is not named because of their love of chillies 3. Chinese food in Chile is bad (see LISTS and entry relating to Museum of Pre-Columbian Art) 4. Wine is cheap 5. Hangovers hurt 6. The Littlest Hobo is alive and well in Santiago 7. NEVER run from a barking, slobbering / rabid dog 8. The ancient South A...

So day 2 in Santiago was a crazy day indeed for Luke and Luke! We went walking to see an art exhibition of Picasso, Miro and Goya at the art gallery which was good amazing. I got all excited and teary (I had a little moment) as I just loved being in a Spanish speaking country such as South America viewing the work of these amazing Spanish artist...

last of the 24 hour bus rides and we find ourselves in santiago tring to cross the boarder but unable due to snow blocking the our way across the ande mountains. trying to get to mendoza for a booze up on vino tinto before flying out of south america on the 20th of august, a bit sad but it has been great adventures thats forsure taking advantage...