We got to Pucon at 9.30am and jumped off the bus straight into a taxi. We handed over the address to the hostel and travelled the almighty distance of 20 metres to the front door. After a little chuckle and a kind taxi driver that didn´t ask for payment we rather embarrasingly arrived. We had a very warm reception from the owner before another panic episode as Mike realised that he had left his bank card on the bus, which had since departed town. After realising...

When we arrived in Santiago at 10.30pm we thought we had booked the Bellavista hostel where we had stayed 2 nights previously. Unfortunately, Mike was still on NZ time though and had booked us the wrong night, so a small trek across town led us to another hostel where there was room for the 3 of us. We freshened up, went to our favourite restaurant for some cheap food and accidently stumbled into a private party for a spanish school. After a couple of drinks an...

We got to Valparaiso after a rather dozy 2.5 hour from Santiago and wasted no time at the hostel signing up for and tucking into the mid-afternoon BBQ that was being put on. It was a very hippy based hostel with the smell of cannabis and Bob Marley tunes playing all day, not quite my scene but pleasant enough. After food the 3 of us headed for a stroll through town and took one of the 'lifts' up through the town to take in the view. Valapraiso itself is a sprawl...

So the landslide somewhat threw away our plans. We were going to arrive at 8pm and spend the evening planning my next move, finalising Harriets travel details and then enjoying a nice meal and having a couple of drinks. The reality was we got in at 2am, got conned by a taxi driver into paying 15pd for a journey that should have cost 5pd and then found that the hostel had no bar, and that the petrol station nearby didn´t serve alcohol after 1am. Sadly, the peach ...