Today we woke up and the lady served us breakfast on the balcony. We had half a melon with peach and a bread roll with cheese and ham! We then packed up our bags to head to Vina del Mar. A little about Vina del Mar.. It is known as the garden city, it is a city beach resort that is a holiday destination for the locals and it's lovely, reminds me a little of home! So we headed to the bus station in Valparaiso to head to Vina del Mar we had no idea now far it was...

Today we left Santiago! Sad to be leaving Norman and Julie (but hopefully their gonna meet us in Bolivia for a weekend) and leaving Vicky and Abbey (but I think we're meeting again in a week!) The boys got up early to pop to Norman's to do the washing! (his apartment has a laundry room) I got up about 10 and we all rushed to pack our bags for check out at 11, clothes washed and dry we stopped at Norman's to say goodbye and headed on the metro to the bus station,...

Ola everyone - sorry haven't updated for a while! So here goes trying to remember what we've been doing! Wednesday 2nd Feb Today we laid in till about 11 then I sent the boys out to go for brunch as I just wanted to chill (was feeling quite homesick today :-( but seeing a msg from Jake and Megan cheered me up!) The boys returned (they'd been to McDonalds!) and I spent about 3 hours trying to upload the pics to this - nightmare especially when computer is in S...

Tuesday 1st Feb 2011 Today after a lazy morning we decided to get a taxi up to the public swimming pool that we'd given up looking for the day before. When we were driving in the taxi we were all so relieved we had given up the day before as it was about 4-5 miles up a huge windy hill! We paid 7500 (about a tenner) to get in and a local guy came over asking if we were eniglish - he went on to tell us to go get a refund as there was 1500 kids from the rough a...

Monday 31st Jan 2011 Today we headed out to go up to Parque Metropolitano which is a mountain (national park) in Santiago. We headed there at around 11am to be told the 'funicular' (like a tram that runs up 485m) didn't open till 1pm (everything is very laid back here!) so we went for some breakfast - poor Joe: me and Craig are relying on him so much to speak Spanish but he's doing really well! After breakfast we headed back up to the Parque Metropolitano to...