House sitting in Chile can be fun. But for us, it’s over. We were parked up for just over a month, and we’ve now got ichy feet. This is what we have been doing.
Tennis of course
Sarah made a quick trip to Ireland and France to see family, and to check out some Tennis. A hectic few days but worth it.
Rafa on practice court in Paris
Roland Garros
Brining out birthday cake onto court in Roland Garros
As it happens, It was Sarah’s birthday while she was in Paris at the French Open tennis. Imagine her delight when she saw a massive birthday cake being brought out onto court! However, it was not actually for her, but for Rafa Nadael, just as good I guess!!!
Rafa celebrating being 27 years old on Phillippe Chartier court in Roland Garros
House sitting duties
While Sarah was having fun in Europe, I was busy exercising Lorraine’s 2 dogs. I’m not quite sure who was exercising who, but we got on just fine.
Alsatian Fluffy enjoying sunshine on his walk
Street dog Luna out for her walk
Alsatian Fluffy
Luna and Fluffy are very individual dogs, they pretty much do what they want, and when they want, and can ignore you for hours if they want to. But when it comes to walkies time, they go crazy, and love to get out and about. Luckily they are happy enough for you to play about with a camera while walking. They like their walks in the early mornings, and late evenings to this suited me fine to look for the nice light that these hours bring.
Luna walking
Luna getting ready to hunt
The views
While we were there, it was nice, We had a place to ourselves (and the dogs who were great company). We did a few DIY jobs for Lorraine while there, and got a lot of online work done as she has a great internet connection using the Entel USB stick. I’ve never seen one of those work so fast!
One of the things was to prepare and deliver a presentation on traveling by 4×4 truck in South America to the Hubb UK event in England.
Sunset view from Lorraine’s windows
Luna has some interesting poses in her sleep
We got a few jobs on our Unimog truck done while we were there, a major backup, and a copy of every image we took copied onto 2 hard drives and delivered home, new shelves in our wardrobe, new batteries installed, and a general service and sort out. There was still time to enjoy the views, all these are from within a kilometer of Lorraine’s house.
a coastal view in Chile
Impressive waves in Chile on the Pacific coast
Early morning sea mist on the Pacific coast of Chile
Sea Mist over clifftop cabin
Sea mists
Pacific sunset
Damp morning
Early morning light on the damp bushes
Evening light on clifftop in Chile
Cobweb with early morning mist
We did get surprised a few times to find fog and mist mixed in with the usual sunshine.
Early morning fog
And for all those that were so kind on Facebook to tell me all about the rashers they were having, and how much I must be missing them, Thanks to Martyn and Kate I got a supply of rashers from Santiago. It may have taken a 3 hour bus ride each way to get them, but it was worth it!
Rasher sambos
Nice lunch with Martyn and Kate
Back on the road
And so, we’re on our way again. We are now traveling North in Argentina, and hope to be in Bolivia within a few weeks. Onwards and upwards!
Andes mountains backdrop with Moglander climbing gravel road
Road closed sign due to it being washed out. Guess where we just came from!
Clear blue sky, Winter is not that bad here
Sarah at the wheel
Interesting rocks