Hola Marga..

Espero que estes leyendo este blog porque ayer fuimos a la casa de Pablo Neruda en Valparaiso, cerca de Santiago y pensamos en ti. Es una casa pequena pero con cuatro o cinco niveles, vistas maravillosas del puerto y es llena del espiritu del poeta. Ahora estamos en el desierto/que diferencia! Mike escribe un poco en espanol cada dia, un alumno perfecto! Yo no tanto, pero besos de nosotros.

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We have loved our stay in Santiago, even though it was too short, especially as we wanted to include a trip to Valparaiso and Pablo Neruda's house there. We will write more about all this later. Just to say for now that we were up at 3.30 this morning to catch our flight to Calama in the north of Chile and are now settled in the Explora in San Pedro and trying to get our bearings. We have a meeting with the guides at 1.00 to plan the visits we want to make, so more later........