Having reached our final destination feels a bit strange and at the same time satisfying. This morning I woke up to the sound of waves crashing on the shore and sitting up in bed could see the sea and the beach. No thinking about hours and hours in the car, just a day stretching out in front with the beach and the sun. Actually it’s been a bit cloudy in the mornings with the sun coming out about 1pm. But we’ve not been doing much until then anyway. In fact we’ve not being doing much at all; a bit of sitting on the beach, a bit of reading, a bit of Uno and a bit of surfing and lots of Big Bang Theory re runs in the evenings. Very pleasant. I never got round to taking ... read more

Today was more like a day you would think of when you say ''I'm on holiday''. It started of with a usual holiday lie in reaching very late morning so I'm afraid i can't really say anything about what other family members untill about 11am. But when i was finally up and running properly Ben had prepared a bit of a devotional for us (something dad came up with for the holiday) to start my day off. A few minutes later we were alll down the beach, which is very easy to get to as our appartment is in a building right in the sea front. The beach here is nice with fine sand and the sea is a good temperature with decent size waves for me and ben to have some good fun on the ... read more

Day 13. Pirate bays and Desert Cities. Woke up early feeling quite strange in the bed and cabin I found myself in, in a place called Bahia Inglesa, so named because of the English pirates who hung out there. Weird because the night before, I thought I had come across some beach holiday paradise. I was excited and already working out how we could stay there an extra night. In retrospect, it was dark when we arrived and the rest of the family didn’t seem to share my enthusiasm. In the morning I realised we had stumbled across a less-cheerful version of Butlins. Rows of chalets with paper thin walls so you can hear everything the neighbours say, wash and eat. The chalet had a feeling of neglect and of a hundred different families passing through ... read more

Day-11 I don’t know if Joe told you about us staying the night in a random scruffy hotel called: hotel of tourism… well we woke up and tried to get out of the place as soon as possible. We managed to get out and into the car by 9am. But apart from the manky hotel and stuff, that bed I slept in has been the best bed on the trip so far!!!!! It was a nice and big double bed with a soft mattress. Which was nice! That day was a short day in the car because we made an unexpected stop in Valparaiso, caused by the good reviews from the Lonely planet Chile guide book. It recommended a lovely little place to stay called The yellow house! To get there we had to drive through ... read more

Mum went to the Post Office. Then we all went to a bike shop. Dad, Joe and Ben hired some bikes and went off. Me and mum went looking at shops. We had a picnic by the river. We had toasted sandwiches and played the ABC game, when you have to see things beginning with different letters. Ben fell off his bike and hurt himself badly. Mum had to go and get him and he had to try to get all the dirt out of his wounds. I felt sorry for him. There was a long power cut all night. We had to have a barbeque instead of eat out. Then they put a generator on. Love Nadia... read more