In Chile we seem to be able to sleep for very long hours. After eventually getting up and having breakfast, we decided to go out only to find we had left the lights on in the car and the batteries were completely flat. We tried to bump start it down a hail but there was no life in the battery at all so the car was left abandoned We went to the main house and one of the young men said he would sort it out but needed his car. We asked to call a garage but he was a...

The drive the day before had been long so we decided to stay at home and read surrounded by snow capped mountains. Joan went to see the owners to pay but the only person home was the mother of the family who was busy baking bread in an old range. In the kitchen was the family's pet sheep. She explained all about the fruit trees they grew and talked about the animals. There were chickens, turkeys, sheep, lots of dogs and cats. The dogs she explained had mainly be...