Riding our horses into the sunset
Yesterday we went off on a sunset horse riding trek with a 4th generation “huasco” (Chilean word for cowboy) who retired from working at a local Pisco distillery and now offers horse riding outings...
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Latest Images via Instagram
I’d really like to add images more frequently to the blog (there have been complaints….). In an effort to make sure people are kept more up to date, this post will link to a...
Valparaiso Art
The other thing Valparaiso is famous for are its fabulous murals, though that definitely meant that people feel entitled to take a spray and throw up much less interesting scribbles and sketches (ie. eyesores)....
Valparaiso Funiculars
We arrived in Valparaiso and have a new hobby – riding funiculars! Although it didn’t help that the funiculars start running at 7 when we arrived at 6:30 am and had to climb the...
Volcanic Ash
Here are a few glimpses of the volcanic ash we ran from in Bariloche, Argentina. It was a cute town with apparently a lot of fun outdoor activities set in a landscape of trees...
Hiking in Patagonia
El Chalten is the Patagonian town for hiking. It is also Argentina’s newest town, settled in the 80s(!) to secure the Argentinian claim to the land over the border dispute with Chile. Set in the...
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires! By chance, we arrived exactly in time for the famous Sunday fair of the San Telmo neighbourhood. So we spent our first day wandering the streets and taking it all in. We...
Jeans first, couch later
I’ve been noticing that the Argentinians, and especially the porteños, are a fashionable people. The leather shoes, especially have been catching my eye here in Buenos Aires. They must take their fashion seriously as...
Let’s talk money!
The Argentinan government is trying to prop up the value of the peso and as a result a parallel market for US dollars has emerged called the “blue dollar” and gets anyone with greenbacks 30...
Taking to the skies
As you may have seen on the twitter feed, we wanted to take to Argentinian skies in a glider (for Stephen) and a parapente (paragliding) flight (for Christina). Unfortunately the tandem glider pilot decided I...
Wine and Olive Tasting in Mendoza province
Here we are in Argentina, after an arduous border crossing that we might blog about later on, but let’s focus on the positive. We’re in the wine region of Mendoza, specifically in the town...
