Well here I am for the second time in Santiago! and you know I love it!! This time round its almost spring and its nice and warm in the day time with bright blue skies. Now that the smog has cleared slightly I can now see walk around the city I can now properly see the Andes for the first time! they are massive (as you would expect) and beautiful. I'm down here to catch my flight to New Zealand and had hoped to do some skiing as some of Chile's best slopes are...

After my mammouth 28 hours bus journey from Colombia over the boarder to Quito in Ecuaor, I have decided to treat myself to a flight down to Chile. I arrived at 3am (yuk!) and have spent the last 2 days chilling and snozzing interspursed with the odd mouch around Santy. This time round Santiago is soooo much nicer than when I was here last, spring is so its way, and this time round I can actually see the Andes surrounding the city (last time all I could see wa...

Got here late last night after the maddest journey ever, which involved 60 year old men! YUK!! The journey here was completely nuts, the bus was 2 hours late and we nearly crashed!!! 2 coaches were careering into each other like they do in the movies and then the first coach went in front of ours and kept braking randomly! if that wasn´t enough! the 2 coaches then stopped and the drivers got out and had a full fist fight in the street!! then all the passengers...

In the Craibean and its amazing!!! and very very hot!

YO!!! from the land of the beautiful, yes last night took a Freeeeezzing overnight bus from Bogota to Medellin, Colombia's second city where I am staying in posh area of town full of model agencies would you believe and lots of beauty therapy joints. I have been sooo lucky in arriving here when I have, for once I have timed it perfectly for the Medellin flower Festival a week long festival thats more about drinking, dancing and horse riding than it was about fl...