Valparaiso - hills!!! Funiculars, colourful houses, dogs, electricity wires, walking tour, la nona b&b, fauna balcony for white wine lunch, horse riding on the beach and over sand dunes, asado BBQ with the cowboys eating the tastiest beef, drinking coffee watching the world go by, art galleries, street art...

Santiago - the weekend, taco bell, Sunday night on the town, pisco sours, great red wine, stodgy Chilean food, cheap beer... Hangover!!! Cycling tour of the city and markets and bohemian quarter, Santa Lucia hill, jet lag, vilafranca with squeaky floorboards and tiny rooms, Sunday no mans town... Best bits - night out on the tiles, cycling tour...

Sydney - New Year, fireworks, Katy and Paul, Nikki and Adam, Bondi Beach, Manly Beach, the Blue Mountains, Bill's uni, Newtown Thai restaurants and bars and retro shops, cute houses with benches out the front, funky, hip, edgy... Best bits - seeing where Bill lived, catching up with great friends, Newtown.

Melbourne - the peninsula spa, midnight mass in the cathedral, shrimps on the barbie, Germans, boxing day test match at the MCG, hot chips and beer, cycling to Altona and looking at pelicans, Daylesford spa and bath house, mini golf, lift home for random drunk australians, street graffiti, the lanes and arcades, Milanese hot chocolate, Saturday night on the town boozing with Adam, puffing Billy, the dandelions, koala bears, Roos, wombats, vegimite rolls, gelato.....

Singapore #2 - boozing until 4am, tennis, amazing christmas treat from ben of afternoon champagne tea at The Fullerton...