Perhaps knowing this was a moving day, we were both up early and had a quick breakfast before beginning to pack things away, ready for tonight's hotel.We have wondered whether our motorhome was just too heavy to do high mountain roads and our expectation was unrealistic. However we were approached by the couple who also had a camper van. Initially they wanted to know about transport to Valparaiso by bus, and Joan was able to hand over details with bus numbers, co...

We both slept ridiculously well and had breakfast in the restaurant downstairs. Joan has never seen pickled gherkins, onions and capers served for breakfast - but being Lancastrian ate some none the less. Today was a rest day to help us recuperate before setting off North tomorrow. Neither of us are very good at cities so we decided to go up Cerro San Cristobal, a spur of the Andes that lies at the very heart of Santiago, topped by a statue of the Immaculate Conc...

After a hectic morning of delivering cards, writing more cards, posting them and dropping JB off at the kennels, our cab turned up to take us to Heathrow. The driver who lived in Mansfield said in all the 5 years he had worked as a taxi driver, he had never been to Whaley. The journey down was uneventful and we arrived at Heathrow with four hours before our flight. Check in and security was miraculously quick, soon at the other side we had a late lunch at Huxleys...

Our final day on Easter Island…. Honest! On the whole the day was uneventful. The plane flew to Santiago in the early evening so we kind of felt that we were hanging about. There had been some heavy rain showers overnight and the air smelt of the damp earth. After breakfast we walked in to town and visited an internet café where we emailed our next cabanas and the car hire company about our arrival times. We walked down to the front and we pleased to...