Santiago- where do we start?! We had such an amazing time here thanks to the wonderful parents of our spanish teacher in London- Claudia. After a 12 hour overnight bus ride from Pucon, we arrived in Santiago (the capital of Chile-a city of about 4.5million inhabitants) at 09:00 in the morning to Claudia´s dad waiting for us with a sign with our names in it! So nice. we were welcomed like Kings and Queens. It was such a relief to not have to think about whe...

So we ventured on to Validivia a small town situated north of Chiloe on an estuary to the west of the lakes area Extremely famous for its beer due to German immigration many years ago, the town was cluttered with bars all over the city! We spent just one day here but it was nice to be near the water and walk around the botanical gardens. We also took a local bus over to a small ´Pueblo´or village about 20km outside of Validivia where the Spanish invaded the to...

So it's been a while since we updated you on whats going on with our trip- for the last few weeks we have been acclimatising to a new continent, language and way of travelling. After having left the heat of Buenos Aires behind, we acclimatised to the fresher, colder climate that was Patagonia! As we arrived in Ushuaia, Christmas at the end of the world desceded upon us.We celebrated it on the evening of the 24th with lots of people we met in the hostal from al...

So after a very long journey from Auckland in New Zealand we arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, one hour before we left on the same day! Exhausted, we managed to get to our hostel in the San Telmo area where we slept for 3 hours before heading out to explore the surroundings. The hostel was a great place run by a group of friends and we met some amazing people there from all over the world. Speaking a mixture of Spanish, English and French we all managed to comm...

A friend wrote on our blog recently that "íf you like a country under the rain, then you really like this country" - this was exactly how we found New Zealand. In fact i think its fair to say we fell in love with this country in the three short weeks we were there. We enjoyed it so much that we havent had time to fill you in on what we have been up to! So here we go.... we started our journey in Christchurch after having flew over the Southen Alps- wh...