by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 8, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
Osorno, December 8thWhat must surely be the world’s ugliest church, Parroquia San Francisco, looks out over Plazuela Yungay in the center of Osorno. I came across it last evening on my wander, having settled into my latest hostel, the Hostel del Chaman, a really...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 6, 2022 | Blog
December 5th 2022Puerto Octay, near OsornoI am sitting on a bench in a campsite in Puerto Octay. It’s early morning, the sun is fighting to break through some dull, misty cloud and I’m feeling rather pleased with life.This is a lovely little place.I got...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
So, this is a test by Peter after some long distance hand-holding talking through by Cathal…. Let’s see if it works!
by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 5, 2020 | Blog
When things start coming at you, they can come slowly at first and then all of a sudden. It’s Monday, March 20th and I’m in Eliana’s place, my hostel bolthole in Punta Arenas. I got into Chile four days previously, on the eve of the Argentine/Chile border being closed...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 4, 2020 | Blog
Having made it into Chile from Argentina just before the frontier was sealed to all transnational movement because of coronavirus, the question now was, “is there a way to move up the country?” Chile’s southern-most region, the very bottom of continental America, is...