Today I woke with an incredibly painful stomach and unfortunately the pain stayed with me most of the day - looks like I will have to do some more practice on the wine front. Emerick and Almendra my hosts had to go off to work and study and as it was raining and still early I decided to stay in the house as they only had one set of keys. I did some more planning, sending out couch-requests and spent a few hours on the toilet (sorry for the graphics). At 2pm they ...

I was up early this morning to say Thankyou and goodbye to Kelly as she had to be off for work at 7am. In the morning I packed the last of my things, worked out what I was leaving and said goodbye to Vero. After a quick lunch I was just about to head to catch my bus when I got a Facebook message from my host in Valparaiso saying not to come today as all the water was out. It was to late though I had already brought my ticket and 2 hours warning was not enough tim...

Today Vero had the day off and had offered to take me into the city to change some Chilean pesos into $$$ and to pick up a tent a friend of mine had left at a hostel for me. It was another beautiful day in Santiago - the weather here is truly glorious and helps keep the people smiling. After picking up the tent and changing my money Vero headed off Christmas shopping whilst I went to find a photo printing shop. I had a nice photo of myself, three other Couchsurfe...

After a little sleep-in I was up doing some yoga and enjoying the beautiful Santiago weather. As it was Sunday Kelly and Vero had a sleep-in and didn't really have anything planned for the day. In the afternoon we visited a local fresh fruit and vegetable market and it was really cool with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables at a fraction of the cost of the local supermarkets. As I already had brought lots of vegetables yesterday and only had two days left in San...

After about 3 hours of sleep we were woken up by the planes intercom as the plane was approaching landing. It was just before 5am in Santiago but based on Rapanui local time it was just before 3am so a very early start. Baggage claim took almost an hour and by 6:30am I was on a bus headed for city Centro. As I was so tired the whole journey seemed to take forever; after the bus I had to catch two trains on the Metro, then wait 30 minutes for a bus, I then missed ...