13 Mar
I thought working for a year and not paying rent would be a rather good idea. In fact, it used to be the last time I tried it. I got palacial houses to myself, I got king size beds to myself and I didn’t have to worry about paying any bills and the toughest thing [...]
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13 Mar
Next day, we set off on the famous Torres del Paine hike to see Las Torres – 3 very distinctive peaks. It was overcast. It was cloudy all the way up. It was steep. Remember – we had all been on a ship for anywhere between 3 and 8
months… We staggered up, making about the [...]
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12 Mar
The financial haemmoraging begins in ernest… At the porteria (entrance) to the National Park, we saw buses going
to our Hosteria, so asked if they could take our bags – we wanted to walk back to Lake Amagada (?) as it had some very pituresque scenery of the torres. No deal. So we left our begs [...]
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11 Mar
For some reason, there was something big going down the next day in Punta Arenas and we couldnt get any accommodation, so we hightailed it to Puerto Natales, starting point for trips to the Torres del Paine National Park.We had
a nice bus up from Punta Arenas – they have good buses in Chile – and [...]
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10 Mar
Am in Punta Arenas with two people I worked with on the ship… Follow our adventures as we try to get to Torres del Paine over the next few days!
The first night, we were in Punta Arenas and our intention was to book into a hotel and each of our own rooms and vege out [...]
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