Thursday, January 17, 2008

Brasil

















Santiago-Buenos Aires-Montevideo

Montevideo

Cabo Polonio

Victor surfing the dunes


Dear friends and family, there is a big black hole in terms of pictures as we dont know what happened with our new camera, 3 weeks old, purchased with love, generating happiness. It´s a mistery but it disappeared. Touchy subject.
Anyways:
From Patagonia we went back to Pichilemu to spend christmas there. We rented a room in the house of very friendly and very pregnant Josefina, her boyfriend Chris and their pitbull Cometa. All so lovely. We had some fun with the dog cause she enjoyed running behind the sheeps of the neighbour, and behind rabbits, once we let her escape, so we had to run through the village chasing the dog.
After relaxing for a few days in Pichilemu we headed back to Santiago to collect some documents for the car, go for a beer with the funniest carpenter in the world.
We then went to Argentina through the Andes, beautiful scenary, el paso de los libertadores, and arriving to Mendoza. We spend a night there and back on the road. The next 2000km were just pampa, all the same, nothing but heat and mosquitos...
Buenos Aires had a lot of expectatins for us but we found a really hot city and we were tired as well so we didnt enjoy it that much apart from finding Sun and Andrea a lovely Australian-English couple that we met in Santiago de Chile. We spend newyears eve with them and more people from i dont know where.
Uruguay didnt start very well cause as we said before something happened to our camera but as soon as we were discovering all the small hippy beaches we fell in love with Uruguay, relaxed,friendly people and beautiful.
Cabo de Polonio with big dunes, no cars at all and artists mixed with young people, families, cool atmosphere. The same as Vallizas not as hippie but looked like if in that town there was a festival every night, people with guitars, concerts in most places, artisans.....