Santiago (Chile) – Miami (USA) – Essen (Germany) – Annecy (France) from 1/02 to 12/02/13

So we took off Friday night, to land with 2 hours more in Miami. Still a little bit sleepy and annoyed after 1 hour and a half waiting for the control of the passports… The guy asked me any kind of weird questions: “Where are you going today?”; “ah you…
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January in Santiago – from 06/01 to 01/02/13

After Patagonia, we counted the money we spent and the money we have left, and that basically decided for the plans… Alex had to work anyway, only the week ends were free. I wanted to go to Pucon for 5 days, but unfortunately, the prices of the buses increased a…
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Patagonia – Part 3:Parque Nacional Los Glacieres, Argentina – from 31/12/12 to 04/01/13

On Monday 31st we left the sunny Puerto Natales and took a bus to El Calafate, Argentina. Another long episode at the border, to stamp and smile :-)… In El Calafate, we decided that we could go out to celebrate New Year and have a proper dinner. We even thought…
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Patagonia – Part 2: Torres Del Paine Trekking – from 27/12 to 30/12/12

Back to Punta Arenas, we took a bus to Puerto Natales, 3 hours north. We bought food for trekking (pasta, rice, dry soups…), and left on Thursday 27th to the national park Torres Del Paine (another 2hours in a bus). In the bus from Punta Arenas, we met Cindy and…
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Patagonia – Part 1: Fireland – from 19/12 to 26/12/12

We (Alex and I) left Santiago Wednesday 19 in the morning, and flew to Punta Arenas, in Chilean Patagonia. Rainy and windy (really windy) day, we are pretty much freezing!! The car we rented was waiting for us on the car park, and we got our Nissan Xtrail! We started…
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End of the world and year’s trip plans

Vamos a Patagonia! Alex and me will fly on Wednesday 19th of December to Punta Arenas, the most southern city of the continent… We will get a car rental (a 4×4 station wagon – hopefully, because we plan to sleep in it) from the day we arrive to the 26th…
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Santiago, week 5 – from 10/12 to 17/12/12

For a start, welcome back to Santiago, the noises, the people, the cars… and I finally got a chance to record for you the alarms of the cars that are part of our life all the time (every hour or so), that I told you about in my first article.…
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Atacama desert – from 2/12 to 10/12/12

The trip from Iquique to San Pedro de Atacama was pretty long, 10 hours sitting in a bus… Oh, yea, there is the landscape…nice the first 2 hours, all along the coast, with seldom villages, but after that, the landscape was pretty boring : it is the desert ! so…
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Trip to Peru – from 20/11 to 29/11/12

Vamos a Perú !!! With Camille, a french girl that I met in the Spanish classes, we decided to go to Peru, and visit the famous Machu Picchu. We planed to have 10 days in Peru, but actually we realized it was a bit short to do a lot of…
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Santiago week 4 & Travelling plans – from 12/11 to 19/11/2012

Not much to say about this last week, I thought I would have HEAPS of time to get bored… ok, I barely had time to write my blog, and to get ready for my next adventures… We had a few parties at home, and one was the ”rally de la…
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