Hola

So far Chile has indeed been chilly it has also been wet and awesome! Two have become five and we now travel with a meeshy, a Janey and a rather stinky Paddy (i have forgiven him his stinkyness as meeshy and pad are the best at spainish and without them life would be a little difficult).

We have come a long way in the week and a half we have been here. Starting in sunny Saitiago we didnt do much apart from discoving a rather nice tipple called Pisco (we have had many a Pisco disco) and gerally swapping travel tails. We did climb a big hill and tried to break though the smog.. smog one, mogg nil!

Since then we have mosied on south and the rain has been following us like a lost puppy. Speaking of doggys, chile is full of them and they are very very friendly. My favorite so far has been "box dog" (the cutest dog in the whole of chile) who lived in a cardboard box outside our hostel in Pucon.

Apparently in Pucon there is a massive Volcano that has plumbs of smoke urupting from it all the time. You may find it surprising to know that volcanos can be very tricky to spot when they are feeling shy, we were in Pucon for 3 days and he hid behind a rain cloud for the whole time! We did however get a chance to go swooshing down it on snowboards, which was quite exciting if a bit tricky as it was blowing a gail and did not stop snowing. I have always thought that snowboarding when it was snowing would be.. well what its all about.. i was wrong! The problem is that the ground is covered in snow, which is white, and there is snow falling, which is white, from clowds, which are white. To be honist half the time i couldnt tell if i was snowboarding or standing still!

We spent a couple of days in Valdivia. The highlight of our stay was seeing the massive Wallrusses whose faces look alot like cats and the pelicans catching fish heads thrown from the market.

At the mo we are on an island called Chiloe and yesterday and today it has stopped raining! woohoo! We have made the most of it and have been snuffling about in a national park. We have been bounding across endless sand dunes, watching the massive waves break on the strangly black sands and adventuring though old mossy forests (accompanyed of corse by a dog, we called him Bowie).

The fire is burning and Paddy needs help with dinner so i shall say Adios.

love love xxxx