The fine weather is back with us. We had a slow start to the day, our plans confounded by the insurance situation. We began the day with a leisurely breakfast. The blog was caught up on and we are both reading books: Kevin is reading Stephen King's Joyland, based in a seaside fair ground, and Joan is reading The Night Circus, a book about competing magicians which seems to be a theme. On the way over she watched one of her favourite films, The Prestige on the pla...

The cabana is very quiet. A few people pass by on their way to the lodge building but in the main, it's very private. Joan woke up to find it raining – not hard rain, but nuisance rain. You can take breakfast here in the main building where they proclaim, we serve black coffee, which we took to mean they serve real coffee and not the powdered Nescafe which is common place. We preferred a take away breakfast which we could eat in the privacy of our cabana. ...

Moving on. It was with some reluctance that we moved on from our cabin overlooking the lake. We headed out of town towards Ruta 5 which in this part of Chile is full metalled and a toll road. Osorno town is about 80 miles from the Puerto Varas junction and we soon found ourselves turning off at the Osorno junction and one again heading east towards the Andes. It says something about the size of Vn Osorno that despite driving an hour away from it, it still looms h...