We arrived in Santiago 5hrs before we´d even set off from Auckland which is pretty good going given that we were on a plane for 11hrs....! So now, for the moment, we´re 3hrs behind the UK instead of the 13 ahead that we were in NZ. Time travel is pretty tiring though and we've taken a wee while and some big sleeps to get ourselves sorted but we're on top of it now. We enjoyed Santiago, quite a pleasant city to walk around and lively of an evening. From there we travelled south for 11hrs on a bus to the Chilean Lake District and the small town of Pucon on Steve's birthday. On the journey down we passed hundreds and hundreds of miles worth of vineyards and loads of loads of mountains - getting greener the
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