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House sitting in Chile finished

Posted by on June 11, 2013

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 Nadal Practice court fan photo

Rafa on practice court in Paris

Roland Garros

Roland Garros

Brining out birthday cake onto court in 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

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 while house sitting

Alsatian Fluffy enjoying sunshine on his walk

Street dog Luna out for her walk

Street dog Luna out for her walk

Alsatian Fluffy clifftop

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 walking

Luna getting ready to hunt

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

Sunset view from Lorraine’s windows

dog has some interesting poses in her sleep

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

a coastal view in Chile

Impressive waves in Chile on the Pacific coast

Impressive waves in Chile on the Pacific coast

Early morning sea mist on the Pacific coast of Chile

Early morning sea mist on the Pacific coast of Chile

Sea Mist over clifftop cabin

Sea Mist over clifftop cabin

Sea mists

Sea mists

Pacific Sunset in Chile

Pacific sunset

Sunlight on dew on bushes

Damp morning

Early morning light on the damp bushes

Early morning light on the damp bushes

Evening light on clifftop in Chile

Evening light on clifftop in Chile

Cobweb with early morning mist

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

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

Rasher sambos

Sausages, eggs and chips in Chile

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 Unimog Moglander climbing gravel road

Andes mountains backdrop with Moglander climbing gravel road

Road closed sign

Road closed sign due to it being washed out. Guess where we just came from!

clear bue sky over Andes mountains

Clear blue sky, Winter is not that bad here

Sarah at the wheel of Unimog

Sarah at the wheel

Interesting rocks

Interesting rocks

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