Well Lonely Planet has let me down on Santiago. Supposedly very smoggy and yuk, Santiago has been a pleasure. It is quite cold though, which is an interesting change. We are staying in an old mansion converted into a hostel. It is gorgeous. You can see the snow topped Andes from everywhere in the city (if the fog allows) so that is awesome. Unfortunately I still havent mastered Spanish and am seriously contemplating pretending that I am deaf and mute. No hablo espanol has become my catchphrase.... The language barrier has no bearing on the weird food they serve in Chile [View Full Entry]

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yoo pples, just updating again because i know that i won´t have that much time as of next week. well, i forgot to mention a few things before, and one of em was that i went to the stadium and it was the shit, awesome awesome, but it wouldve been better if CHILE WON FUCKEN!!!!´oh well but it mad how the whole stadium went crazy when were close to scoring a goal........ ok as of last weekend, i only slept 10hrs from thursday to sunday (7hrs sleep on fri, and 2 hrs sleep on saturday nite), i went to a motorshow [View Full Entry]

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Hey I can´t believe that this is the last blog i am writing in South America it feels as if i have been in this part of the world for a long time! We have been in Santiago, Chile, which if im honest is a bit pants! Just a big city with fairly unfriendly people and lots of smog!!! Ok well i may be being a bit harsh but you can gather that it doesn´t make my favourites list! We stayed in an ok hostel, i have been spoilt so far staying in more hotel like places. The good thing about [View Full Entry]

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15.10.05 (yesterday) We went for a walk around the city. We went to the Central Mercardo which is a traditional chilean market selling food, mainly sea food which is sent to UK too. Today we went to Cerra Santa Lucia, this is a historic part of the city. It boasts gardens, fountains and a castle. We had been told not to go early in the morning, in the afternoon or at night as it can be dangerous. So we got there at about 11am, nice and safe! It was very pretty. At the top of the hill (as it´s on a [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday we had our bus journey to Santiago, Chile. We were able to see the most spectacular scenery as we drove round and through the Andes. At the border, which was quite scarey in the middle of the mountains. We declared that we had fruit (apples) and they took our lush, huge apples of us!!!!!!3 of them! We were not happy!!!! Luckily we had eaten our sandwiches 5 mins before, cos they would have had them aswell! On the other side of the border you start your decent down the mountains. This involved the windiest, smallest roads on a coach ever! [View Full Entry]

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yo pples, hows everyone doin´? im doin good on this side of the world. at the moment im staying at my dad´s family for a few days because the other were a bit busy with work. anywayz, last night (thursday) i managed to go out clubbing and im goin again 2molo nite . last nite was classic, i had a blast considering it was only 3 of us (me my cous and his mate). the idea was to go pick up chicks by using me as non spanish speaker, in order words gringo!!! well i was drunk by the time i [View Full Entry]

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i hope everybody is all good.....im still trying to get used the time difference here. the flight was BAAAD, just after 1\2 into the flight i starting vomiting and then i had diarrhoea and then i had fever. im sure it had to do with what i ate the night before because i never get motion sickness or anything like that. Anywayz after auckland, it was about a 15hr flight to buenos aires. i was uncomfortable, my legs were hurting and i barely slept, not to mention that i was sick arghhhhh...but im all good now and my family is stuffing [View Full Entry]

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South America, continent number four and the final destination before we fly home next month. We arrived in Santiago with a new found enthusiasm which had been missing since Asia. During our months spent in 'home from home' Australia and New Zealand we found that we had lost some of that feeling of adventure, but our time in Easter Island started to awakend those lost feelings and upon landing in Santiago our enthusiasm had reached new hights. It's all about making these last few weeks really memorable and going home on a high. After a good nights rest, our first priority [View Full Entry]

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So we are gonna skip forward a little bit to now, and we will rewind the tape later. To satisfy your demands for more of Clint & Brian I have included two pictures, one of Clint wearing his favourite sock, and one of me and Brian relaxing in the bar. Neither have anything to do with this story, but I like this picture of Brian, because it is before he started rotting. In Santiago now. Ok thats the fast forward done. I call Victor the Mexican. You might remember Victor from such blogs I havent written yet as "Buenos Aires saves [View Full Entry]

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or literally on the toblerones....sprawled, dejected, tired and dirty...daveless and homeward bound.... but they serve tea.... [View Full Entry]

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