We fly to Santiago via Rome on Wednesday 13th March, arriving in Chile Thursday morning. We will then spend three nights in the big city getting acclimatised to strange food and wine before flying south.
Those of you who did not fall asleep during geography at school will know that Chile is long and thin, in fact nowhere is it wider than 156 miles yet it is over 2,600 miles long, thats the same distance as Bishop's Castle to Timbuktu. It is now a bit too late in the season to go right to the bottom as it gets cold and windy in March, we could have stayed at home for that, so we will fly to Puerto Montt, collect a hire car and then, after exploring Chiloe Island, work our way north visiting the Lake District, a few vineyards, some nice coastlines and eventually we might get up into the deserts in the north.
Only the three nights in Santiago, the flight to Puerto Montt and the car hire are booked, everything else we will make up as we go along.