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Chiloe

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

houses on stilts in the rain

Chloe Writes: We couldn´t leave Chile without visiting at least one more place seeing as we had been there for so long. We decided on the island of Chiloe and a town called Castro. Castro is a quaint fishing harbour, well known for the palafitos (houses on stilts). We spent a couple of days wondering around and practicing our spanglish. Unfortunatly Chiloe is also known for the fact that is rains most of the time in winter. So after a short but sweet chill out it was on to Patagonia in southern Argentina and a total of about 50 hours on the bus to get there…. joy!!


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Church at day
Old yellow church

View over cemetery
View of the cemetery, it seems that the burials are over rather than under the ground

Shrine
Shrine

Pink hotel
Pink hotel

Pelican
Pelican on a boat

Jumpers
Women knitting the many woolen products on sale in SA, were both going to look like Lama´s when we get home

Houses up the hill
Houses on a hill

Houses on stilts
Houses on Stilts

Front of houses
This is what the houses look like from the front

church at night
Church at night

Boat and flag
Boat with a Chilean flag

us before the 30 hours
One of our many buses on our way to Patagonia

View on the road - mountains
View on the road with the mountains was spectacular

View of nothing
The second half of the journey was a view of nothing, boring!!

2nd sunset!
Sunset from the bus

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Santiago

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Old & New

Pete Writes: Oh my head hurts, I don’t think I have used my brain this much since I left college! It has been lots of fun though and I think that we both have a good understanding of the language to help us through the rest of our trip. We did not only learn the lingo in our 2 weeks in Santiago, We managed to catch a football match which was highly entertaining especially when we saw one whole side of the stadium bouncing in unison and chanting their teams name. We also went on another tram ride up to the Virgin Mary who overlooks the whole of Santiago , unfortunately the smog of Santiago limited our view a little, but it was good to get out!


Carolina dressed as an owl for a fancy dress party

Chloe Writes: The last 2 weeks have been a really good experience, it has been so nice to have a base for a couple of weeks and the people we stayed with were lovely. Anita, Rene & Lesley (3 Chilenos) who live in the house, Nicole & Crista (2 Americans) also studying at the school, Rosseo & Bali (2 cats) & finally Gimpy the stray cat with a limp who I fell in love with, I wish I could take him home. 2 weeks of Spanish classes are nowhere near enough when you are learning a language for the first time, i just hope i can keep it up somehow when i get home or it will probably all be lost.

We’ve had a good taste of the culture, food and drink during our our stay. We even saw Mummys in the Museo do Arte Precolombino that are over 2000 years older than those in Egypt. The craft markets are amazing and our home will definitely have a brightly colored mix of Asian and South American fabrics and stuff. We have enjoyed the Empanadas, pastie like food, Artichokes dipped in lemon and making pisco sours (a lemony tequila like drink) at school.

Its time to hit the road again and head south (good job i brought a warm coat), for the last few days of our Chilean adventure!


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Chloe outside school
Chloe outside School

Pisco Sour
Making Pisco Sours, lemon, egg white, sugar & Pisco

Anita, Rene and Claudio
Anita, Rene & Claudio

Bali
Bali

paintings in the square
Paintings for sale in the square

Shoe shine
Some one getting their shoes shined

Virgin Mary
The giant virgin Mary

Head on rock
Head on a rock

Santiago skyline
Santiago Skyline

Esmog
Smog over the city

Inside museum
Stone statues at the musem

Bottles
Bottles in the wall

Cola Cola
The Cola Cola fans

Catolica
The Catolica fans

Metro Stop
A metro stop

Market Stall
Colourful market stall

Bibloteca
The Bibloteca

Silvia cuts her cake
It was our teachers birthday on the last day

Classmates
Our Clasemates

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Valparaiso

Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Tagle Grafetti Pete Writes: JETLAG... ARGHHHHH!! After an 11 hour flight to Chile (which is living up to its name, its Cold!), but going back in time 15 hours our body clocks have ... [Continue reading this entry]

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