We got our snow gear on one morning, got our boards and went out early with Nadine to the bus stop. The ONE bus that leaves for the mountain pulled away as we got there (it left early, but we may have fluffed around slightly as we don’t do mornings well). Anyway, we were in…

We decided to break up the 14 hour or more trip down to Puerto Montt by stopping in Chillan on the way down and we’re really glad that we did! A sister in the Vina Del Mar English congregation introduced us via email to Nadine Stone! Nadine and her family (Hubby Shannon, and their teenagers…

Turns out the bus ride to Valparasio was definitely worth it! The streets wind into each other and there’s little stairways here and tunnels there. A total of 45 cerros (or hills) make up the area of Valparasio, and apparently every hill is a little community that know each other very well, so the higher…

Pauline asked me a good question yesterday! Do you have a drink of choice there, any stand outs! Yes, we do!!! It’s the Pisco Sour (looks like a girly drink Krisko! haha) It tastes like a cross between a Margarita and a Teguila Sunrise! It has pisco (a spirit), lemon, a dash of cinnamon, ice,…

So today we left Vina Del Mar and took a CRAZY bus ride to Valparasio! Valparasio is gorgeous and the bus ride was worth it… but I have to tell you about the bus ride!! So Matt and I have our back packs, and for this part of our trip we also have our snow…

We travelled to Vina Del Mar on Friday by a double decker bus. It was quite comfortable and the trip went really quickly. We hadn’t booked anything in advance so on arriving we grabbed a taxi (we have a snow board bag with us so they put the front seat down for the bag and…

As always on big trips, the plane ride was long and tiring! Our days activity from June 25 was, bed at 2.30am after doing our last ditch efforts at finalising everything before leaving. Up at 4.30am to leave and head to the airport with Brett. Then our flights went pretty smoothly from Melbourne to Sydney,…