On any other day, in any other place yesterday would be considered an alcohol day. However the obvious must be said, Mendoza is not just any other place and today has waited its time to shine. The afternoon siestas create a fantastic if yet still unfamiliar phenomenon for us, we’re up and ready to go […]
With the last couple of days being an exercise in indulgent luxury the quartet is back together and heading off to the hot springs in the foothills of the Andes. Hot springs appear to be a more regular phenomenon than I had expected, the Andes are active and alive like no other range, bursting with […]
Today is the day, we have restrained we have resisted but today is indeed the day for flood gates to open and drown us in wine; what a delightful image. Our driver arrives bang on time and we head off to pick up the girls and get going into a day of indulgent wine, food […]
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? It’s a great quote from Emma Watson giving a speech delivered on women’s rights to the UN but right now it equally applies to both men and women. If there’s no meat now, then when? If it’s not for us, then for who? We’ve caught […]
Farewell team Poland, Farewell Chile; the next chapter begins after the tail lights of the taxi have faded into the distance leaving this band a duet once again. As out of tune as we sing, this duet can do some things in perfect harmony, such as get on with a holiday so get on with […]
The last of the embers have settled into the Valparaiso harbour along with the banished haze of a new years bender not to be forgotten; the former far sooner than the latter. Even this is questionable of team Poland, or as they say in central Europe, Polska Drużyna. Valparaiso seems a long way away now […]
There are rare times when things become or simply are, more than they ought. Be it a person achieving beyond expectations, an event with outcomes out shining its station or indeed a place that lives bigger than its borders. Welcome to Valparaiso, or as only seems appropriate given the irreverent disregard to the norm here, […]
A home cooked breakfast has the team in fine fettle, we’re bursting to get out and about into this city that seems like it’s always alive on the one day of the year it truly kicks into overdrive. All of the warm romanticism of our first impressions yesterday seem alive and possibly even enhanced. We’d […]
Christmas is done and we’re thoroughly detoxed from our nature bender in Parque Huerquehue so there’s only one thing to be done; meet up with team Poland and re-saturate on alcohol. So it’s off to Valparaiso, or ‘Valpo’, the well renowned party spot for Chileans and indeed anyone worth their salt on new years eve […]
Today is the day we drop tent and venture back to humanity, suitably relieved of any alcohol in readiness for the reunion with team Poland. The two days walking thus far has been harder than expected, partly due to the terrain and partly due to our waning fitness. Just how much of each factor remains […]
Charlie and Steve's Excellent Adventure 