by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 9, 2023 | Blog
San Pedro de Atacama, December 26th. Having entered the Atacama Desert — the driest place on Planet Earth — by following the Pacific coastline, I now turned inland and headed for Calama and, ultimately, to San Pedro de Atacama. San Pedro is the center of...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 1, 2023 | Blog
Mejillones, Atacama Desert, December 21st.On Sunday, December 18th, after a pre-Christmas gathering in the Irish Embassy in Santiago, with a choral recital of seasonal music, chat, finger food and wine, I decided I needed to cover some serious ground and make haste...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 31, 2022 | Blog
Valparaiso, December 15 and 16th 2022.Valparaiso has always had something magical about it for me. Perhaps it is the poem by Oliver St John Gogarty, The Ship.A ship arrived from Valparaiso,Dropped its anchor in the bay,Her name reminded me of kingdoms,Sunlit countries...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 26, 2022 | Blog
December 12th 2022, Santiago.As I move ever further north up the country, some of the reasons for Chile’s wealth become more evident.Riding along Ruta 5, the spinal transport road linking together the north, central and the northern part of southern Chile, it is...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 23, 2022 | Blog
December 9th 2022, Lautaro.I am writing this dispatch from this small town in south central Chile and I am doing so for a very particular reason.Over the past number of years, when I have mentioned to people my wheeze about riding a motorbike from Tierra del Fuego to...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Dec 22, 2022 | Blog
December 7th, Puerto Octay. Alexander (32) from Switzerland used to sit in an office where there were computers on every desk. Most of them had the sort of screen savers popular almost everywhere — photos of beautiful, often dramatic landscapes that would appear...
