I stand out quite a lot in Chile- over 6 feet tall, white skin, blue eyes, 'blond' is not your average Chilean. And Chileans do love...

So I have a few minutes free to post some photos from my first few days here in the US. We arrived on Saturday, 4th July. Incredibly, we got...

I've had precisely no time at all the past week to blog...and later this afternoon I'm heading off on a one month trip to the US.......

I wrote about Cerro Polanco a little while ago. As I have no time at the moment to blog properly, here's a photo of how it used to look ...

On Monday the Royal Navy's HMS Manchester docked in Valparaiso. A few weeks ago, one of the crew had contacted me after finding this blo...

You might want to have a look at this post I wrote a few months ago about Plaza Sotomayor . The building you see with the tower was original...

I just read this report in El Mercurio that cites a study showing that, per capita, Chile has the highest number of flu cases in the world....

I'm afraid I haven't had much to say recently so I'm just going to post another foto antigua de Valparaiso. This was taken somet...

A little while ago, I wrote about how my favourite thing in Chile is the abundance of extremely cheap and really good quality fruit and veg....

This photo, from around the 1880s (just after Plaza Sotomayor was totalled to make room for the monument for the heroes of the War of the Pa...