Today is my first day of work in many many months and unfortunately I didn't sleep so well and was up at 5am waiting for the day to begin. I still feel really jet-lagged from my flight and not sleeping certainly hasn't helped. At 9am I started and today I was gardening - pulling out weeds in the flower beds and around the bungalows. To be honest my body hurt a lot whilst doing it and I certainly don't have any of the strength I used to have whilst going to the gy...

Waking up this morning was difficult after such a late night but the girls and I had committed to going to church this morning. By 8:30am the girls had only just got up so we were a little late leaving but ended up making it just as it started. The service was incredibly hard to follow for me and I couldn't keep my eyes open but there was lots of wonderful singing that perked me up. An hour and a half later and it was over and we headed back to the camping. Mysel...

I was up early this morning and didn't sleep so well because of the jet-lagg and the crossing of the two time zones. The tent and mat I was given at the camping was comfortable enough and I didn't get too cold but its certainly not luxury and I wonder how I will go camping for weeks at a time in Patagonia. At 7am I headed to the local morning market only to find one woman selling fish and being told to return around 9am when there would be more people selling. I ...

After just 3 hours sleep I was up to do my exercises, eat breakfast and make my way to the bus station to get a transfer to the airport. At 5:30am I left the house and was able to take a bus and then the Metro to the central station where I could then get a connection to the Airport. I could have taken an airport shuttle and it would have been much simpler but by catching public buses I managed to save myself over $10. The whole journey went very smoothly and I a...

The aim today is to do all my last minute grocery shopping for Rapanui and at the same time go and climb San Cristobal hill seen as I missed doing it yesterday. After some organizing and stuffing around I headed to the city (over an hour on the bus) making it to downtown by just before midday. I headed straight for San Cristobal hill in order to climb it before the heat of the day got too intense; unfortunately the strike was still on and the whole park was close...