Farewell to Dotty

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Today was a rather sad one. Although we still have almost a week left before we return to normality, we spend that time bereft of our companion , our school, our transport and our home for the last two months; …

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Poetry Corner

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For Dad school I have been reading some poetry and having a go at writing some poems of my own. Here they are: The Clatter of the Hooves On top of a hill, you can hear him riding, riding, The …

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Don’t blow your top

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We have been travelling up through Chile and we have seen loads of volcanoes. A volcano is a mountain where molten rock has erupted through the surface of our planet. The molten rock means liquid rock, it is also called …

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Gorgeous grand great gigantic glaciers

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Over a short amount of time we have been lucky enough to see lots of glaciers and have visited a glacerium in El Calefate which gave us lots of facts. It is my turn to write a blog and I’m …

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New Patagonian Galleries

Hi, just managed to get up to date with the photo galleries. There are four new galleries in the ‘Americas’ section showing photos of our travels from the Argentinian Lakes down the Ruta 40 into Patagonia and back up the …

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Mr Bean’s Dotty Adventure

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We’ve had a few misadventures in Dotty that have in retrospect made us chuckle; driving down one way streets cheerfully waving back at the people waving frantically to us; repeatedly passing the same bemused old men sat on their park …

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Torrents of Rain

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We crossed over the border to Chile, after cooking our steak and vegetables for lunch because you can’t take meat into Chile. We stayed at Puerto Natales and got ready to go trekking. The next day we drove into the …

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Waiting for our wheels.

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While everyone at home is experiencing cold freezing conditions we have arrived in South America to hot summer days and nights. Santiago is Chile’s capital city and although it has some high rise, it seems a less frantic city than …

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