23:00 - It's mother's day in the UK, so, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the mummys reading. The weather this morning was glorious! It's been cloudy for the whole of my stay here and finally I saw blue skies :-))). Today was my last full day on Easter Island. Tomorrow I leave :-(. It was also Sunday and as they do a spanish/rapa nui catholic service in town, after breakfast I hitched a lift with the owner of Tea Nui and went to mass. The place was absolutely packed. I ...

21:00 - It's been a pretty amazing day. Nothing makes me happier than having a guide fill me with meaningful information! We went to Vaihu, Akahanga, Hanga Tetenga, Tongariki 15 restored Moai), Rano Raraku (the cave where the Moai were sculpted), Te Pito Kura and Anakena (6 pretty amazingly kept Moai still with their pukaos on - pukao is like a hat on top of the Moai but it represents his hair). Let me share some of my newly found knowledge gathered over the last...

18:45 - Breakfast gets served to the room here in Tea Nui :-), which is very nice indeed. I got picked up at aound 9.30 for the first of two tours today. Sabina (the guide) took us around the Akivi Moai's in the morning and Orongo in the afternoon. I took myself off for lunch in a shack overlooking the sea and had tuna ceviche (again). It was very nice. I then went for a walk in the little harbour nearby and could not resist having some ice cream. Although the ch...

19:30 - The flight left on time from Santiago this morning. As there are only 2 flights a day operated by LAN to Easter Island, the plane was full and I hadn't managed to secure a window seat the night before, so ended up on a corridor. The flight itself is just over 5 hours, unfortunately for me, for 5 of those hours, the three babies sitting 2 rows away, cried...without ever stopping... (or so it seemed). So sleeping was not as restful as it might have been! We...