| 23 Sep '02 |
Into Chile |
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1pm flight to Santiago. At 10:30 the hotels' travel agent / taxi driver turns up, he's forgotten that he was supposed to take me to the airport (at least I hadn't
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| 24 Sep '02 |
Santiago |
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I'm home! All the big US and European stores are here, traffic lights and most road signs and markings are the same as Britain (although they still drive on the
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| 29 Sep '02 |
Easter Island |
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3700km from the coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean, this tiny little outpost of Chile is one of the most isolated places on the planet. Most people immediately
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| 2 Oct '02 |
Rapa Nui |
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Easter Island is also known as Isla de Pascua in Spanish, and Rapa Nui to the islands themselves, many of whom still speak the Rapa Nui language. Since Jessie and
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| 10 Oct '02 |
Chillan and children |
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Chillan is a small town in central Chile with no claim to fame, apart from being the birth place of Bernardo O'Higgins the liberator of Chile (with a little help
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| 15 Oct '02 |
Puerto Montt, and bust |
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Ah well, couldn't all be plain sailing. NatWest have blocked my credit cards, I arrived on Columbus Day so everything was closed and the day after was a sunday
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| 18 Oct '02 |
Chiloe. I'd rather be in Bognor. |
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Billed as one of the most beautiful places in all of Chile I though I'd have a look. Reading my (allegedly) trusty Lonely Planet it sounded like a fun place to
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| 21 Oct '02 |
Puerto Varas and out of Chile. |
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On the shore of Lago Llanquihue and with the ominous cone of Volcan Osorno rising above the town lies Puerto Varas. If I had known about this earlier I would have
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| 30 Oct '02 |
Bariloche |
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High in the Patagonian Andes and looking like it has been transported directly from Switzerland is the town of Bariloche. The buildings have a picture postcard
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