Hello Iris and Lalo, we have enjoyed very much looking at your latest addition of photos - such beautiful places in Chile! We are very pleased that you are enjoying your holiday, and we look forward to seeing you when you get back, we are not sure when, but we think will be soon. Take care, un abrazo muy fuerte, Esmeralda y Jeremy xx

Me alegro que sigan gozando de la buena mesa. No hay como el pescado y los mariscos Chilenos. Han tomado chicha? o ya se acabó la temporada.

Cariños

Ola Iris & Lalo y familia los vimos con Sally,las fotos internet se ven muy bien y Maria Gloria,Pili me alegro que lo pasen muy bien,nosotros los acordomos de uds,con todo carino Carmen y familia besitos para todos. xxxx Hope you are all well lots of love Sally & family

What a lovely surprise to receive your text message this afternoon Iris! We have now had the opportunity to look at your blog site, and have enjoyed viewing your photos - it really looks wonderful, and we also wish we were there with you.

Hope you continue to enjoy yourselves, and look forward to further news from you - we will be looking at this site every day!

All our love, Esmeralda and Jeremy xx (saludos a vuestra familia). XX

I love the seals!

Great photos. Wish I could be there rather than in the rain.

Abrazo y besos,

Denise

Ola Iris & Lalo Espero que todo este bien me computadora no esta buena,pero Sally se ofecio en mandarte mensaje,Carino & besos Carmen,Sally Saludos a todos. Now a bit in English we hope you are having a great time & you are both well, Mucho Carino para ti y Maria Gloria & Pily (a liitle bit of Spanish from me could say more too shy)Enjoy the rest of your hoilday Sally xxxx

Dear Iris and Lalo,

I'm so impressed by the amount of places you've been to I cannot tell you. I recognised quite a few, so I know you went a really long way. And the weather looks just perfect.

We are all well here. Denise and Sany had dinner with Claudio, myself and a friend of Claudio's tonight and tomorrow we are having a few of my friends from the park for luch (WITHOUT the dogs fo course). We are cooking them some Spanish tapas and empanadas.

I have brought back with me the drawing Lalo and I did of Poppy. It is very good. You can definitely say it's Poppy. I wonder if Lalo's new pupils are as good as I.

I hope you are having lots of fun. It must be nice to have some rest now after such an exciting time.

By the way, we rang Loli today and she had her sun, daughter in law and grandchildren with her. She was very happy, and gave me some hints on how to make the perfect Spanish torilla (which I will put into practice tomorrow).

Looking foward to seing you.

Big kiss and love from

Miriam, Claudio and the girls

Buenas Dias Iris and George,

Your trip sounds wonderful........I am intensely envious. What a great idea to make an electronic diary. Tell me, do you write it before the vino or after? I would love to visit Chile one day. I live in hope! What are the markets like there. Are they like those in spain with an abundance of fresh food sold by local vendors?

Looking forward to the next instalment

Best wishes, Ruth

Dear Iris and Lalo,

I didn't know we could send messages. That is really great.

Anyway, I just wanted to say how glad we are for you to be enjoying this long waited trip to the full. I was very surprised to hear you walked miles and miles to get to the waterfalls. I now know who to invite to come on my next trekking trip to Patagonia!

The places you've mentioned sound fantastic. Some of them I know are beautiful, since I've been there myself. I recognized many names, and felt very nostalgic about Chile.

Everything is fine over here. Alison hasn't needed me yet. On the other hand I'm quite busy with translations, which is really good after a whole month with none.

Poppy and la nieta were very pleased to be back, especially because of Uncle Claudio and St Andrews Park.

We have had a inner party last Friday with lots of things we brought from France: cheeses, wine, pates and an artichoke soup Claudio made. It was lovely to see my friends again. Denise couldn't make it, because she was seeing Helen's family that evening.

I have seen a possible flat to rent. It's very cute and it belongs to a friend of mine. I'm quite excited about it.

Anyway, enjoy yourselves. I hope this will be an unforgetable experience. We miss you. Here is Claudio.

With much love,

Miriam and the girls

Me alegro que lo esten pasando bien. gozando de la buena comida, los paisages y el clima. ojala tengan la oportunidada de compartir bastante con sus amigos de siempre. Saludos a todos de mi parte.

Por aqui todo bien y sin novedad.

Lots of love,

claudio

Hola Iris and Lalo

We are enjoying your adventure, we check every day to see where you are and what you are doing - mostly eating it seems, but perhaps all the travelling needs lots of fuel. It's all very exciting even here in Weston, so it must be really wonderful for you. Keep writing, it's our highlight of the day following you.

Un abrazo.........Nancy and Chris

Hola,

Que linda las fotos y que guapas estan la tia Pili y Maria Gloria.

Aqui todo bien. Gozando unos dias con la Dorothe que vino de Suisa y la Rosanna, Basam y el Luis.

Que envidia por no estar alli con mucho sol, lagos, volcanos y tortas de mil ojas. Pensando mucho en Uds.

Feliz dia de la madre a mi fantastica madre que quiero mucho! Tambien muchos besos y abrazos a mi linda madrina en este dia de la madre.

Muchos besos para el papa y la tia Pili.

Denise

Hello both of you, I wish you a fantastic time! take lots of pictures and drink plenty of Pisco Sower...