Okay, so I know I'm way overdue for an update... I know "I've been busy" doesn't hold much weight, but we'll go with that anyway... So I finished up my last couple of weeks in Concepcion and caught a train to Santiago a week ago from Sunday.  My last few weeks in Concepcion were good but busy.  The night before I left, Dr. Grandon, the...

Ok- I usually use facebook to upload all of my photos, so to avoid having to do it twice, I'll provide the link for all of my facebook albums. If anyone has any trouble accessing them let me know and I will upload them manually onto this website too. You won't have to create a username and password to view the facebook photos, just follow the li...

Now this is one very beautiful town. Its true that there isnīt much to do in Valparaiso but then again when you see the place you wouldnīt want to. Caroline was worried that I might over use my camera here as it is an amateur photographers dream. Valparaiso is a sea sound town and part. The town played  an important role in the development ...

Valparaiso sits on the coast with its' busy port just on the other side of the coastal mountains from the wine country.  The town itself is the destination.  The town exists on two levels.  The lower section lies for several blocks along the coast with a collection of colonial and modern buildings.  Rather abruptly, the tow...

ON THE WAY TO ISLA NEGRA So Iīm finally able to find a "cyber cafe", as they are called  here, with a fast enough speed to upload my photographs! Thatīs the good news. The not so good news is that each of my video and audio files is over 20 MBs, which is huge. It would take me 10 days to upload and it would crash your computer. Soooo...inst...

Right, Valparaiso (Valpo), a world heritage sight one and a half hours out of Santiago (via rather flash "tur bus"). We were headed to Valpo for three days before returning to Santiago to fly up to Lima, Peru.  In retrospect, three days was long enough and for those planning a trip we would stay in Vina Del Mar (see next entry) a short ten ...

Hey there, Valpo is a port town outside of Santiago. Its got a certain charm about it but it wasnt realy for us! It reminded me a bit of Geelong. The houses are brightly coloured aand sprall up the mountain side in an ununiform fashion. We found some good food.

Valparaiso Ca. 1,5 Busstunden von Santiago entfernt liegt die Stadt Valparaiso an der Pazifikkueste. Charakteristisch fuer das eindrueckliche Erscheinungsbild der Stadt sind der grosse Hafen, eine schmale besiedelte Ebene am Meer entlang und die Mehrzahl der bunten Haeuser der Stadt auf den steil ansteigenden Huegeln. Eine weitere Besonderheit s...

It has been a busy week! I moved pretty quickly through Chile over the past few days as I'm heading back to Argentina tomorrow morning for a wine festival in Mendoza this weekend. (Pretty good motivation, right?) So here are the details of my activities over the past few days ... I left Bariloche with my friend Sarah for Pucon, Chile. Pucon is a...

So its Monday, and I have many stories to tell of the awesome weekend I spent on the coast of Chile. First, however, I would like to write about last Thursday. My group (7 students from Loyola and 1 from Boston College)went to a part of Santiago called Santa Adriana. It is one of the poorest communities in Santiago, and it was a humbling experie...