Currently sitting at Santiago airport waiting for our flight to Buenos Aires. Turned on my laptop and was instantly connected to a free WiFi hotspot at a cafe near our gate – which is fantastic since it means my laptop is not broken after all and the problems I experienced at the hostel were related … [Read More »]
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Day 3 – Santiago
Woke early this morning – had a pretty good night sleep … a lot quieter than Saturday night had been! This morning it wasn’t rowdy uni students who woke me up, it was the garbo! Street noise is pretty bad here – especially with our room right above the street corner and old wooden windows which … [Read More »]
Still here
Just a quick note to say we’re still around … I’m trying to catch up on the blogging – it’s a bit difficult with no functioning WiFi connection here … I can only get online sporadically for brief periods. It’s Monday night, we’re packing ready to head to the airport first thing tomorrow morning for … [Read More »]
Day 2 – Santiago
After we got up and had showers (which were only luke warm), we headed to breakfast – supplied by the hostel. A bowl of frosted flakes, some yoghurt, a hot cheese toasted sandwich, some apple juice, a thin slice of what looked and tasted like sponge cake. We also shared an orange from their fruit … [Read More »]
Arrived in Santiago
We made it here to Santiago without any drama. We are staying at the Happy House Hostel in Barrio Brasil. This is just a brief post using their computers since I can´t get WiFi to work with my laptop – there´s something wrong with their wireless configuration here. I´ll write a more complete post and … [Read More »]