We had to wait for 3 hours with Gerty at the port in Puerto Montt but then she was loaded and strapped down for the trip to Puerto Natales, which takes 4 days. We were pleased with our cabin. Nothing fancy but comfortable with our own bathroom. The beds proved to be very comfortable and we slept well every night. Most passengers were foreign hitchhikers, German, Swiss, Australian, Canadian, American and English kitted out and planning some serious trekking. I fe...

Our first day on the road did not start well as it was the first time in three weeks that it rained and it poured almost all day long. But we bravely set off from San Antonio heading south to catch the ferry at Puerto Montt in a weeks’ time, for our epic four day ferry cruise through the Chilean Fjords. After an hour we were pulled over in a Police roadside check point. They have a lot of these in Chile. Nervously, we wound down the window to be greeted b...

Grimsby with sun is a good way to describe this port of San Antonio. We arrived by bus at about 1.00 on Saturday and by 2.00 had found a reasonable hotel on the hill overlooking the port. We looked hopefully for the MSC Romanos (the ship bringing Gerty to Chile) but no sight so went to explore the area. That exploration took about 30 mins as this is defiantly not a tourist attraction. We did find a small fishing harbour with lots of small colourful fishing boats,...

Tomorrow we finally leave Santiago for San Antonio, hopefully to meet up with Gerty. The website we have been using to track her progress has not been working but as we have not heard from Miguel (our shipping agent) we are confident that she is nearing the port. Fingers crossed. We have spent the last week in Santiago and were worried we would get a bit bored but it is an interesting city and we have been busy. We have watched the changing of the guard outside ...

We had four days in Easter Island, which was enough to see the main sights, but a couple of extra days to go snorkeling and swimming would have been good. Easter Island is the remotest inhabited island and is 3,780 Kms from the main land and its closest neighbor is Pitcairn Island, 2,250Kms away. This is a 5 hour flight. We stayed in a lovely little hotel in the centre of the small (population 5,000) and only town. The hotel is run by Alvaro who knew everything ...