I treated myself to a cama suite bus on the trip from Santiago to BA, it was awesome - it's like flying 1st class (not that I ever have) but I had my own tv, my seat reclined into a bed, I got good dinner with wine and a whisky at bedtime - not bad really huh? I arrived into the bus station in BA early in the morning and had to wait a couple of hours for Nick and Rob to get in. Nick and Rob were 2 of the awesome people I met at Carnival, Rob has a relative with ...

It is only 5kms to Vina Del Mar and to be honest feels like it is just an extension of the same city. We arrived into Vina in the early afternoon, the lonely planet made one of the museums sound quite interesting so we decided to give it a go - having not been to a museum in a long time! It gave a historical timeline of the different regions of Chile and some other parts of South America - which was interesting but not massively different to other museums I've vi...

Valparaiso is a about 120kms away from Santiago. It’s described as a chilled out town, it is in fact a large city, but quite nice with lots of churches and rickety old lifts (ascensors). Tara and I arrived in on Monday afternoon and went and met Nick and Kirsten. We spent the afternoon wandering around the nice area around cerro conception, we even managed to stop off for a beer en route! In the evening we went out in search of a nice dinner with decent views...

We arrived quite late into Santiago - the border crossing coming from Argentina taking significantly longer than the crossing into Argentina! We had time for a little wander before catching up with some friends in the hostel (Mike who we met in Pucon and Bryan who we met in Mendoza) over a couple of beers. We got up early on Saturday to go collect our tickets for LOLLAPALOOZA, so after breakfast, and a breakfast beer or 2 we headed to the festival. The ticket co...

Mendoza is one of Argentina's largest wine producing areas and is also famed for good food so needless to say Tara and I were pretty excited about our visit here! We arrived into Mendoza late Monday evening and treated ourselves to a slap up meal! Tuesday was a morning of getting stuff done (like Tara telling her family/work that her arm was in a massive cast). In the afternoon we took a walk around the massive park in the north of the city! The majority of back...