This is the end – for now….

Haven’t really been in the travelling mood on this trip at all, so I’m going to call it quits and head back to Ireland. Might even find myself a job – if that doesn’t make me want to travel again then nothing will!

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Talca

If in doubt, go for a hike.The hike in question was El Endrillado, a bit of tough cookie especially when our hero starts up the wrong road (before even getting to the entrance to the national park)….
Half-an-hour later, I’m on the right track and enjoying the views of the mountains and the valleys below, of [...]

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Heaven…

….is an ice-cream on a sunny day (or even a not so sunny day, a cloudy day, in fact just any old day)
Everywhere you go there are people eating ice-cream, and plenty of ice-cream parlours to feed their addiction, they even have a thing called a terramoto (earthquake) which is apparently a potent mix of [...]

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Hell…..

… is time spent in a museum! Museums are not something that excite me, in fact I’d probably go so far as to say that the majority of them are boring and I can set new speed records as I make my way around any museum.Maybe it’s just me but looking at an exhibit which [...]

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Santiago

Had a bit of stressful Christmas at home with my family and didn’t feel like heading off to South America at all, but I bought the ticket and so I felt I had to go, now I’m here and I’m wondering what I’m doing here, I need to sit down and make a plan tonight [...]

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