Thank You
I have just arrived back in Spain after 5 months on the road, and what a ride it has been; certain people have followed by trip the entire way on my blog, and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. It’s very early to have a certain view on the trip in retrospect, [...]
Santiago -> Buenos Aires
24th of March: I got up early and cooked some porage (the local bakery doesn’t open until 8.30, so no bread or eggs), and took the metro to the bus terminal. The metro in Santiago is rather unique (as to what I have seen), they took a lot of trains, took the normal wheels off [...]
Easter on Easter Island
16th of March: I got up at 4 in the morning and did my stuff, at 4:50 (surprisingly accurate for South America) I got picked up by a minibus, it then drove around for a little bit before finally heading to the airport. When I was driving around Santiago, I saw the nightlife of South [...]
With Mike
Late morning (now that I have the opportunity, I won’t let it go) again, anyway Mike wouldn’t be around till 10.30, so I had plenty of time and did my breakfast etc. When Mike came we walked up to the top of the San Cristobal, and gazed at the… dull view; although the statue at [...]
Santiago De Chile
I love sleeping in, which is why I chose to do so, there was no time restraint on me this day. So I woke up, did my breakfast thing, slowly repacked my bag and went about my stuff, hoisted my rucksack onto my shoulders, and went out looking for buses to Santiago De Chile.I had [...]
Valparaíso
I arrived at Santiago at 7 in the morning, before I had left I had forgotten to get my glasses or spare contact lenses out of my rucksack, so I woke up nearly blind (-6,5). But as soon as I got off, a bus was about to leave for Valparaíso, so I promptly caught that, [...]
Volcan Villarrica
Pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twaize/sets/72157603879919093/ My watch roused me form my lovely sleep around 3 o’clock, and when I had gotten up I realised that there were no matches left with which to lite the stove. So at 4 o’clock I was picked up with nothing in my stomach, but fortunately I had 3 bananas, 4 apples [...]
To Pucón
I rose early and went on the bus to Pucón, as if by a magic coincidence, it was actually on time. I had had a hard time sleeping the previous night, so I kept falling asleep on the bus, and then waking up when the bus was pulling out of every single bus station, in [...]
The Oregon Girl
I woke up and had the included breakfast, for the first time in Bariloche not having a specific time to get up. It didn’t take long before Dave left as his bus was at 12 o’clock, it was a good goodbye, we had traveled together for only a week, but Dave is a thoroughly good [...]
Another Day In Futaleufu + El Bolsón
2nd of March: Today Dave, Eddie and I were supposed to go on a dayhike, but they had been invited to go to lunch at the house of a local family, so during the entire day… Not much happened. For dinner Eddie was supposed to cook, but after the huge lunch he and Dave had [...]
Río Futaleufú
I got up early to use half the eggs from yesterday, some of the butter and the bread. My egg sandwich turned out to be pretty spectacular, and it wasn’t long before the others were up and about, and ready to go. Down at Fly George we were loaded into buses and driven up to [...]
That Extra Day
29th of February A quiet day, I knew I wouldn’t be going rafting, so I took it easy… Spent a good while at an internet café, uploading pictures and writing some stuff. I bought 6 eggs, 3 pieces of bread and a small packet of butter… MacGyver style, right? I read in my book London [...]
Torres Del Paine
I felt like what I wrote about from my 8 days wasn’t a sufficient explanation of what Torres Del Paine was like. First of all it is massive, you can never see more then a small part of it, the mountains around you take care of that. And you won’t see more than the top [...]
Short Tales
Monty: Monty is a cat living at the erratic rock hostel in Puerto Natales. When it first came around the operators thought it belonged to another American who lives in the area, she has an entirely black cat as well called Vladimir. After 3 days they discovered that it wasn’t Vladimir, and Kat, (ironic yeah) [...]
Second To Last Day In February
Pictures from the previous day are up on flickr. More transportation days… Patagonia is not just big and flat, the population density if very low, meaning long distances have to be traversed going from place to place. My goal for the day is Futaleufú (I dare you to try and pronounce it correctly); it was [...]
27th Of February
Just another day in Coyhaique. During breakfast I had a very long and lively conversation with a Chilean man from Temuco, although as the conversation was in Spanish it wasn’t the most advanced; it did however prove how my Spanish has improved by leaps and bounds already. I would never call myself anywhere near fluent, [...]
20th of February -> 26th of February
Because I am a fair share of days behind (due to the big post from Torres Del Paine), I will put the next couple of days in one big post to avoid spam. Please note that even though I link to some of my pictures here, there are far more pictures on my flickr page. [...]
Torres Del Paine
The Day Before: As I wrote in my last post, I didn’t complete the last day before, so here it is. I was directed to a place called Mesita Grande, and it turned out to be the best pizza I have ever had. It was so freaking delicious I had a hard time believing it. [...]
Gone
Hey everyone I know that you might be expecting my big post on Torres Del Paine, but I am now going into a series of new small cities with no internet, and I will unfortunanately fall a bit behind with my writing, but will catch up soon. I am now going to El Chalten followed [...]
The Last Day Before the Q
So tomorrow I’m leaving to do the big Q, the hike of hikes in Torres Del Paine. Only two major events of the day. The hostel I stay in serves real breakfast, and Bill (one of the owners) cooked me the most wonderful spices omelet; the second major event of the day was when Lucas [...]
Puerto Natales
3 weeks… That’s how long I have been going, and it still sounds mad to me. 3 weeks was the amount of time I spent in Australia, and that was a long vacation; here the 3 weeks have just flown past, it feels like I stood on Plaza Independencia and gazed at that beautiful statue [...]
Rain and museums
9th of February: When I woke up on this day, I had no idea of what to do. I knew by way of the internet that it would be a rainy day, so I decided not to go hiking in the nearby national park as I had otherwise planned. So I spent a long time [...]
Fuerte Bulnes
I woke up very early, regular morning routine, and then started waiting for the tour bus which would arrive at 10 (But remember how I poured scolding water over my hand the previous day? Well this morning, I melted some skin of my finger as I grabbed some very very hot metal, thinking it was [...]
Punta Arenas
My first whole day in Chile. I really have to underline this, my hostel is a wonderful place. The operator, a lady in her 60′s is a wonderful, very energetic and genuinely cares about her guests. I woke up a couple of my times when my room mates stirred, but I didn’t get up till [...]
