Day 363, 2 July 2013, Santiago, Chile. Another beautiful day dawned at the foot of the Andes. It was obviously going to be a relatively big packing day - positively enormous plane trip awaited us at 11.20 pm - 18 odd hours from Santiago to Sydney. So we packed and that was that - a bit of sooking on was definitely happening on my part (and I'm sure on James's as well). We eventually dropped the bags at the office, checked out and went to see what the markets...

Day 362, 1 July 2013, Valparaiso, Vina del Mar and Vina Indomita Winery (Casablanca Valley). We found a tour company via Trip Advisor and booked with itours for a day's outing without a care in the world. Usually, given enough time, we'd jump on a local bus and have a budget outing to a spot like this but today, we thought we'd treat ourselves to being driven. We chose a regular or group tour and were lucky enough to only have one other couple with us (who for...

Day 361, 30 June 2013, Santiago, Chile. We all know it pays to improve your wordpower, and in the last couple of days we learned a new word - which we have immediately put into use. The word is "Exhaustipated". It describes the situation when you are simply too tired to give a s**t. Which pretty much covered it today. We accidentally slept in til 9.15 am - which meant there was no way we could make it to the 10 am walking tour. So we promised we'd have a st...

Day 360, 29 June 2013, Santiago, Chile. We were sooooo tired after yesterday's 3 country jaunt (out of Uruguay, into Argie, out of Argie, into Chile, out of airport, into town to apartment) that we slept for a long, long time. And then I slept some more. James was up and at 'em and went to sort out our wifi problem. In terms of wifi, South America has been either super (once) to pathetic (mostly) to non-existent (now). Not as bad as Africa. Just. In any eve...