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As we arrived here so late they let us just go to bed and check in the next day. After a lie in Donna was still feeling under the weather and didn't each much at breakfast, lunch or dinner. Puerto Varas was settled by Germans back in the 1850's, unfortunately the German Alpine architecture is now lost amid modern hotel blocks and shopping centres. There are two major volcanoes nearby, snow-capped Osorno and the bare Calbuco. We would like to have climbed either of these but the glacier on Osorno is too unstable and Calbuco is covered in a deep layer of volcanic ash, grit and rock from it's last eruption in 2015, essentially there is no path up there. We had an easy day, Donna recovering and me gathering info on what we might do whilst here - bearing in mind Donna is feeling weak after what we believe is food poisoning. After the event info - Donna found out that 1 in 5 passengers on the Navimag ferry suffers from food poisoning. The street sellers here have found a quick way of setting up shop, they sell out of wheelbarrows. Another nice hostel, run by a Swedish lady. We found out more from the owner about the hostel bedding than the local sites. When she opened 20 years ago you couldn't buy quilts in Chile so she had them imported, then she bought a sewing machine and made covers for them all - that's as interesting as it gets! Don't ask me how I spotted it but I could see something down the back of the radiator in our room, thinking it was something of ours I prized my hand down trying to fish it out. 'Don't' said Donna, 'it's probably someone's dirty drawers'. I persisted and yes it was someone's dirty drawers, so I put them back! A grey morning turned into a blue-sky day and Volcano Osorno made an appearance for us. Time for an early night.
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