Scotty's Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my husband. His day started with breakfast cooked by moi (frankfurter hotdogs and cereal) followed by present opening. My fears that the hoody I bought him might be a bit small were correct; but not to worry as we managed to exchange it for a bigger size later in the day. We had a lazy morning in the hostel - the weather looked overcast unfortunately but Scott used the opportunity to chat to his parents on Skype. Our original...

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to the woods we go, with a ruck sac full of food and an upbeat mood, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho. Today is warm and sunny - shorts and walking boots the uniform for the day. We set off in a small group on the bus to the Park National Huerquehue - 'The Messenger Place' in English. Our group consisted of Duncan (English), Bodo & Annika (German), Naomi (Swiss) and Ju & me (English). Everyone seemed upbeat after a days rest...

After our efforts of yesterday we planned a strictly relaxing day today at the hot springs known as 'Los Pozones'. We didn't need to catch a bus until 13.30 so we had a morning of chilling out. Scott made a yummy breakfast of scrambled egg on toast, and afterwards wrote his blog which gave me an opportunity to nip out and buy a few last minute bday presents for him ready for Sunday and some wrapping paper. I found a brown hoody with 'Pucon- Chile' on it and an em...

It must have been the excitement of our pending trip to the Villarrica Volcano as we didn't sleep well last night. We slowly pried ourselves from bed, packed our day bags and had a bowl of cereal before leaving to get to the tour centre for 6.30am. The weather as promised was glorious, the cloud hadn't broken over the mountains so Villarrica still remained hidden from view. At the tour centre we were given ruck sacks which was full of goodies. We were also given ...

Well we woke to grey skies...the rain didn't seem to have any plans to burn itself out! So we made the sensible decision to stay in bed for another hour. By the time we finally got up at about 9.30ish, the rest of the tourists in the hostel seemed to have all disappeared....obviously keener than us! By late morning the rain seemed to have abated and we could see a glint of blue sky in the distance; so we decided to hire bikes out for a half day. I made us up a p...