Laurence Wood (a friend from back in the UK) has a brother Jeremy who lives in Esquel. We had spoken to Jeremy on Skype earlier in our trip and he had given us several good travel tips for South America but this would be the first time we met him. Jeremy arrived at our apartment on our first night and took us back to his house for dinner - Not surprisingly he was very flamboyant and hosted an excellent evening. Cristina (Jeremy's wife) , their son Tomy - David,...

Arrived in El Bolson by bus and found a delegation of local dogs waiting for us, not sure how they knew we were coming but it was nice to feel welcome. By now we had increased our Spanish word count to about 400, which was very useful for ordering food and beer or organising accommodation and travel but now we find that Argentinians pronounce their Spanish in an entirely different way to the Chilean version. Our limited language ability combined with Heather's s...

Day 1 - Decided to leave Puerto Montt for the much nicer German settlement of Puerto Varas, 20 minutes away by bus. Found our B & B, Hostal Erika (German for Heather), with no problems although it was up a hill - Heather has a habit of finding accommodation up high. After checking in we walked around the town, had lunch on the upstairs balcony of a busy café/restaurant/cake shop and then caught the bus to Frutillar Bajo which was another German town with ...

Arrived in Santiago late on Sunday evening with Frank (Dr No) and all booked into the same apartment block and went out for dinner and the new found Pisco Sours. Next day Frank moved on and we set out to explore the city armed with the 50 Spanish words we had learnt. Our very first Spanish phrase "Dos Cervesas Por Favor" was quickly put to the test and it worked, the waiter returned with two LITRE bottles of beer - We may have to modify our phrase to include a...