(or: how I travelled from Santiago to London) After a small amount of fuss at Santiago (my lack of Spanish + check in guys lack of English = three tries to check in all the way through to London), bought essential bottled water and bonus Reeces Cups and did a random act of kindness by [...]

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I am blogging very quickly in “free” wireless hotpot in a random mall in Santiago from my iPod, so, in a nutshell… Got off the ship this morning and did customsy type stuff, then hopped on my transfer bus which was apparently supposed to take me into Santiago, about 120ks away. It turns out that [...]

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Today we stopped at Puerto Montt, which is the last port day before we finish the cruise and I hop off onto dry land. The geographer in me has to tell you that it has a population of around 150 000 and is smeared along the hilly coast of central-ish Chile. The plan for the [...]

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I took a bit of a break from blogging for a few days there, so here’s a brief run-down of what I’ve been doing: chatting with various people going to lectures reading books (South & Race to the South Pole) sleeping drinking cocktails and lovely coffees in the lounge going to meals watching Dexter and [...]

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(Warning: it has not been a good day) We landed at Punta Arenas about 6am. Being chronically unorganised, I didn’t sign up to join any of the tours, so we just wandered into town to have a look around and hopefully buy some things (maybe a double power adapter, maybe a card reader for my [...]

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