17 - 20 February
Valparaiso, Chile
Valparaiso was the reunion of the Awesome Foursome. Maarten and Ron arrived after a 24 hour bus ride to join us for a few days at the beach.
On Saturday, we spent the day at Reñaca Beach, a very european beach, flanked by very tall apartment blocks, Burger King and a Macdonalds (to Ron´s excitement) and with people practically sitting on top of you. This was the beginning of the massive backgammon challenge between Nicky and Ron while Gayle and Maarten observed surfing competitions and beach football. Nicky´s over-zealous game of beach bats resulted in a broken bat that we had purchased on arrival at the beach!
Sunday: "C-Day" (Complaining Day). We spent two days on various forms of transportation to get to La Compana National Park. It was a stifling hot day, and we only had 1 litre of water between the four of us. According to the lonely planet, this park offers some of the best views of Chile, we however strongly dispute this.
For the second day in a row, Ron and Maarten discussed the eccentricities of Ale, our house mate at Mara´s, at great lengths. We have resorted to limiting them to 20 minutes of this subject matter per day.
At the supermarket, the Dutchmen had little confidence in our catering ability and as the trolley filled up we heard mumblings of feeding the 5000... However, as we anticipated, we demolished our delicious ratatouille pasta (while the boys had undercatered on the wine front).
Monday, we spent another day topping up our tans, and swimming in the Pacific. We took Ron on shopping spree (yet another episode of Nicky and Gayle´s extreme makeovers).
That evening, Maarten was adamant he wanted to cook, but when it came to the crunch he discovered that one of the guys in the hostel was an Argentinian chef and pawned the preparations off to him, not that we´re complaining.
Valparaiso, Chile
Valparaiso was the reunion of the Awesome Foursome. Maarten and Ron arrived after a 24 hour bus ride to join us for a few days at the beach.
On Saturday, we spent the day at Reñaca Beach, a very european beach, flanked by very tall apartment blocks, Burger King and a Macdonalds (to Ron´s excitement) and with people practically sitting on top of you. This was the beginning of the massive backgammon challenge between Nicky and Ron while Gayle and Maarten observed surfing competitions and beach football. Nicky´s over-zealous game of beach bats resulted in a broken bat that we had purchased on arrival at the beach!Sunday: "C-Day" (Complaining Day). We spent two days on various forms of transportation to get to La Compana National Park. It was a stifling hot day, and we only had 1 litre of water between the four of us. According to the lonely planet, this park offers some of the best views of Chile, we however strongly dispute this.
For the second day in a row, Ron and Maarten discussed the eccentricities of Ale, our house mate at Mara´s, at great lengths. We have resorted to limiting them to 20 minutes of this subject matter per day.
At the supermarket, the Dutchmen had little confidence in our catering ability and as the trolley filled up we heard mumblings of feeding the 5000... However, as we anticipated, we demolished our delicious ratatouille pasta (while the boys had undercatered on the wine front).Monday, we spent another day topping up our tans, and swimming in the Pacific. We took Ron on shopping spree (yet another episode of Nicky and Gayle´s extreme makeovers).
That evening, Maarten was adamant he wanted to cook, but when it came to the crunch he discovered that one of the guys in the hostel was an Argentinian chef and pawned the preparations off to him, not that we´re complaining.
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