Saturday, before our bus to Valparaiso, Chile, we head to check out the park by us in Mendoza, which is said to be impressive. After initially thinking a gym is the park and being shooed out we head up to the grand gates with the BMWs coming out. We think maybe we are going up the wrong drive again and it is the drive way to a posh hotel or stat...

Valparaìso grows on you - at first it looks like any city but then you start exploring and you discover things you'll never see in your own country! The city is built on and below hills (Aberystwyth but with more Cardiac Hills) ;), then the houses are all painted different colours (and very bright) - and then in the streets, on the walls are pai...

Take an asconsor to the colourful hills of Valaparaiso... a town that flourished during the gold rush and collapsed after the Panama Canal was built. A cityof colour with an unusually colourful past. Artist colonies now thrive on the steep hills overlooking this port city. Bright yellow, orange, red, blues... every colour you can imagine decorat...

Am I enjoying Chile?? Sííííííííípo. I think all those people who wished me to made it come true. I am absolutely having the time of my life. Besides the usual discomforts of travelling in a bus through an unknown foreign country where a language is spoken that you have not mastered yet, I must say it is very easy to travel here. And so far peopl...

Well after an early introduction to some South American pàrtying the rest of our brief stay in Santiago focussed on future planning and acclimatising....it is very European in outlook but lacks in any kind of vibe due to its size. We then got away from it all in the foothills of the Andes some two hours from central Santiago and the scenery ther...

Boris is a frenchman who can speak chinese fluently,i could not forget six years ago when we traveled in Europe,he drove us from France to Holand,we enjoyed many famous towns and french red wine. this time he was invited by us to have a trip in Chile,he reached at santiago airport with delay about 3 hours.the next morning nine o'clock we picked ...

Despite a rotten night's sleep on Monday I managed to get myself to the airport for the flight to Santiago the second time round. I had Dessie for company as well, he changed his flight from Friday as we had both had enough of the greyness of Rio. I was reminded of my first impressions of Rio international airport on our return. Old school. The ...

The phone rang sharply at 7am, jarring me from a deep sleep. I was so confused I thought it was Caroline's mother calling again at an ungodly hour to enquire about what sauce to prepare for supper! It took me a few moments to realize where I was, and that the wakeup call was for our tour to Valparaiso, Viña del Mar and Reñaca. No time for a show...

So I've been in the house less than a week and already the neighborhood knows that a stupid gringa lives here. This could be a record. A couple of days ago the cable guy came to install cable, phone, and Internet. He was a very happy guy, whistling all the time with a big smile on his face. He totally rewired the house, climbing around the roof ...

Hello hello all! Another week has passed in Chile. Its fascinating how time is flying, and its also rather scary. The end of this week was the halfway point of the program, believe it or not. Its rather bittersweet. I miss everyone back home, and I cannot wait until the family comes to visit me in December, but I also have really become accostom...