Zelma’s Trip

The following morning we headed back to the road where we had got off the bus and tried to beckon buses.  This is commonplace in countries like Venezuela and buses appear to stop just about anywhere to pick people up.  What you come to realise is that, just because somewhere doesn´t have a bus stop […]

Read the rest of Wednesday 19th November – Las Trincheras to Valencia bus station

Miraculously we managed to get up and leave early in the morning and we took the subway across town to the bus station.  Reynold´s guidebook had stated that the metro station was not next to the bus stop and that there was a 350m walk through an unsavoury neighbourhood in order to get there and that […]

Read the rest of Tuesday 18th November – Caracas to Las Trincheras

When I woke up on the Saturday the World had, unfortunately, not worked my life out for me or, at very least, my plans in Venezuela and how to best travel around and get out of Caracas.  It became obvious very early on that people do not really stay in Caracas on their travels.  A […]

Read the rest of Saturday 15th November to Monday 17th November – Crazy Caracas!

I woke up to the sound of the alarm in the morning glad that Jose had booked the taxi for the airport the night before.  I headed to the airport, got there in plenty of time (I know, unusual for me) and bought a guidebook for Venezuela.  I also managed to board the plane at […]

Read the rest of Friday 14th November – Santiago to Caracas

If you haven´t gathered by now I positively loved Chile.  I think this may have been enhanced by sharing the majority of my travels there with my parents but regardless of that it was really a very special country.   People The people in Chile were friendly, almost without exception.  From the random stranger who […]

Read the rest of Chilean Observations

I woke up early as I was planning on getting a lift with Christian and his father who were heading into town for a meeting.  When I went down for breakfast I met Christian´s cousin (Felipe) who said that he was driving to Santiago and asked if I wanted a lift rather than having to […]

Read the rest of Thursday 13th November – Colbun Lake to Santiago (Happy Birthday Ben and Dad).

On the Wednesday I got up, albeit not at the crack of dawn, and walked down for breakast.  It was the kind of breakfast you always hope that you will get when breakfast is included with freshly cooked bread, eggs, fresh fruit, yoghurt, cereal and homemade preserves and local honey.  I, very nobley it has […]

Read the rest of Monday 10th November to Wednesday 12th November – Lago Colbun

On the Sunday I made a decision to head to one of the places in a hostel guide I had picked up at some point when traveling with Mum and Dad.  Originally I was going to head South to Pucon where there was an opportunity to stay on a ranch, do lots of riding and […]

Read the rest of Sunday 9th November – Santiago to Colbun Lake

Algarobbo is about an hour away from Santiago and we left plenty of time for Mum and Dad to get into the airport on time.  Once in the car park the guy from Trekker, where the van was rented from, turned up as expected at the right time and we did the handover.  It was […]

Read the rest of Friday 7th November to Saturday 8th November – Algarobbo to Santiago and Zelma´s desertion!

We headed into town in the morning and I put my laundry in.  We also spent a little while looking for a clinic, doctor or dentist.  This was as, about two days after being assaulted in Wanaka, I developed a strange solid lump in my mouth.  Since then it hasn´t gone down and I vary […]

Read the rest of Wednesday 5th (Mum´s Birthday!) to Thursday 6th November – Algarobbo