After leaving Santiago, the Mat and Vernon fiasco show continued. After a fantastic day of sightseeing in beautiful old Santiago, we headed west to Valparaiso via incredibly comfy bus. Two hours later we checked into a lovely old ´Residencial´. We decided to go wandering (my favourite past-time), and found ourselves walking through the streets of one the most colourful cities Í've ever been to. Every building was different to the previous, in colou...

Hello from Santiago, Chile. we arrived this morning/afternoon on sunday 20th. which is quite strange because we have already done sunday 20th in Australia!! crazy time change. the flight from Sydney was very long and cramped. we stopped at Auckland airport, New Zealand for about half an hour (add to countries i have visited?!) and then along the bottom of the pacific ocean. We arrived to clear blue skies and hot sunshine. The terrain is very different here, lots ...