It's now been three days in Santiago and I can officially say this city is awesome. It's really beautiful - both the nature and the built environment, it's clean and easy to get around, the art scene is heaving, there are awesome bars, food and shopping and parks absolutely everywhere. A few things I have noticed are: 1. PDAs are totally acceptable. There are couples smooching everywhere. On the metro, on the streets, at the tourist sites, lying in the park. In ...

After a 12 hr flight, four movies, some very impressive food put on by qantas, nice chats with our seat buddy who had 2 more flights before arriving at his destination in Bogota and a very camp air host who called Brent and I "twins"?! we arrived. The airport rigamarole was fairly painless except that as an Australian, I had to pay a $95 US reciprocity fee and B didn't have to pay anything. The list of countries which have to pay seems to be in order of most-hat...