Great news...a slightly freak rain storm has hit Santiago and the coast. It's tipping it down, something everyone has been openly hoping...

As a follow on from yesterday's rant, I wanted to post about from where Valparaiso could take some advice. Having lived and worked in Ar...

On Monday evening, the smoke in Valparaiso was pretty awful. The air was thick with the smell of it and it was actually hard to breathe. I h...

Yesterday afternoon at three o'clock, a forest fire started near Quintay , a fishing village about 30 km from Valparaiso. The dark cloud...

Of course, with a big house there are always details to attend to. One of them for us was finding antique window locks. Called sapos , or fr...

So here are the rest of the photos I promised (and ahead of schedule too-the late afternoon light was really nice). This is the master bedro...

I've been away for the past few days down in Santa Cruz, looking for a nice vineyard in Chile for some clients. We got back yesterday a...

So if you're the reader who emailed me on Saturday-you read this blog, you're married to a Chilean girl and you're interested in...

I'm having trouble working out where this photo was taken from. By my reckoning, it must have been around Cerros Florida, Bellavista o Y...

I bought my iPhone way back in October and unlocked it for use with any SIM card without any hassles (apart from the waiting and hoping that...