List of posts

  • I Am Out of Here!

    95 countries do NOT require a visa to enter Chile, except Australia – I blame ScoMo. I wandered back through the Santiago arrival hall hoping to perhaps recognise the bastard who approached me on arriving. Then I went to the car park area where I was met, I would have recognised the car as it

    Read more

  • Call Me Paranoid

    It has been my universal experience when travelling internationally, that the flight check-in, provokes a moderate degree of anxiety. On this trip to Chile, the process has verged on panic, despite flying Business Class. Even for a domestic flight, LATAM recommends arriving 2 hours before departure, nevertheless I am processed in less than 20 minutes!

    Read more

  • So just to reiterate, I flew from Australia to Santiago and then onto Punta Arenas. Caught a local bus, very modern and efficient to Ushuaia. It was in this village, where, destined to meet my backroads tour, The Saga of the Chilean Visa reared It’s ugly head again. I arrived at the airport in Adelaide

    Read more

  • Our last trek/hike

    On our penultimate day, there was a morning hike to the top of a cliff, looking out over a remarkable view. The winds increased during the morning and by lunch, almost gale force! Again, not much to say other than some remarkable illustrative photographs. As I told the group at our farewell dinner last night,

    Read more

  • The Singular Hotel

    The Sociedad Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego (SETF; Spanish: Company for the exploitation of Tierra del Fuego) was a historically important company operating within the Chilean and Argentine region of Patagonia It was founded in 1893 and cultivated over 1 million hectares (2.5×106acres) land for sheep farming and private factories like Puerto Bories to process,

    Read more

  • More photographs

    Notice the snow capped mountains, because later on in the morning, we track towards these mountains and a wonderful Sapphire coloured like.

    Read more

  • Esconsed well and truely in Patagonia after a fairly long mini-bus trip into the Torres del Paine National Park and our hotel, Las Torres Patagonia. I think I can rest easy, with each passing hour, the spectre of a Chilean armoured police tank trundling over the hills, lessens. The Hotel Las Torres is part of

    Read more

  • Esconsed well and truely in Patagonia after a fairly long mini-bus trip into the Torres del Paine National Park and our hotel, Las Torres Patagonia. I think I can rest easy, with each passing hour, the spectre of a Chilean armoured police tank Now, on a different topic, let me firstlystate categorically that I am

    Read more

  • An opening photograph of an Argentina shearing shed – very similar look and feel to the large outback Australian sheds So I have 2 hours to spare whilst waiting to be collected, so I obviously have a coffee then decide for a beard trim as next door is a barber shop! Well let me tell

    Read more