Monthly Archives: December 2012

Street Art, Street Dogs and a Smog-Free Christmas Day!

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Seasons Greetings everyone! We hope you had a lovely Christmas, and indulged in some good food and drink!

As Richard reported we celebrated Christmas Eve with the local Couchsurfing group.  We ‘orphans’ plus locals made up 12 nationalities who mingled, ate, drank and exchanged Christmas cards on the roof top terrace of our host, Johan’s apartment. The potluck was held in the most exposed corner of the roof top terrace (on the 27th floor of the building!) so while there was plenty of merry making we were extremely cold all night.

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Bought a Car!

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Merry Christmas everyone! We are celebrating Christmas in Santiago as we are a bit stuck here at the moment (more about that later). A couple years ago we organised a Chrismas potluck for ‘orphans’ in Wellington and we have found the same event being organised in Santiago! So tonight we are joining a random group of people for a meal on the rooftop terrace of an apartment building. Everyone also has to bring a Christmas card to exchange.

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Searching for a Car in Santiago

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We arrived in Santiago, Chile on Monday morning. By the time we cleared immigration and customs, waited for our luggage for over an hour in the baggage claim and then found Inez who was picking us up it was early afternoon when we left the airport.  Inez is an employee of Florus, the owner of the apartment we are staying in at the moment. Inez’s driving is scary! From doing 30-40km/hr on the highway (while everyone else was doing 80-100km/hr), changing lanes without checking (mirrors and shoulder checks, what are those?), and a number of near misses with other cars we wondered if after flying all this way we would make it to the apartment in one piece! But we did. And when we arrived, Florus was here to greet us in person and show us the apartment. It’s a nice apartment, in a great location, close to all the action.

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Last weeks in New Zealand

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First blog, first post! It’s been a while since we have been on a big trip and seeing that blogs are the way to keep family and friends up to date on adventures these days, we are now also entering 21st century with our own blog! So welcome to kiwiandcheese.com! I am sitting in our fancy apartment in Herne Bay/Ponsonby in Auckland at the moment, where we are staying for three days before catching our flight to Santiago.

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