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		<title>So far so good</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a week since I arrived in Cusco. So far I&#8217;ve seen in the New Year with Malu, lost another camera and started my Spanish classes. I&#8217;m staying at Hospedaje Inka, a hostel where I was when I first visited the city 5 years ago. Then I had a pot to pee into at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=68&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On my travels again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McClements Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s been a while since my last post (1364 days to be precise). In that time I&#8217;ve whisked Malu to London, broken up, relocated to Barcelona and I&#8217;ve now just quit my job&#8230;. again. I&#8217;ll soon be on my way back to South America to spend new year in Cusco and who knows I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=60&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back in Cusco</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McClements Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 3 days more of travel I&#8217;m now back in Cusco. My jinx with buses continued when the service from Santiago broke down in the Atacama desert. We roled into Arica 41 hours later and 11 hours late. However the episode did give an interesting insight into group dynamics. While the woman passengers harried the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=58&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stopover in Santiago</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McClements Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m drafting this posting as I sit in one of Santiago’s central parks with conquers falling around me. I’m escaping the heat of the day as I wait for my evening bus north to Arica. Santiago is considered by many a poor cousin to Buenos Aires but I like it. The centre is more compact, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=57&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Puerto Varas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McClements Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just spent the past two nights in Puerto Varas, a pleasant city on the shore of Lago Llanquihue. I had planned to travel directly to Santiago but it was the end the school holidays when I arrived from Chaiten and all transport was booked up. Our bus driver, who lives in Puerto Varas, kindly gave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=56&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carretera Austral (Chaiten)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McClements Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heavens opened as I pitched my tent. There was heavy rain interspersed with incredible torrents of driving rain and that is how it stayed until I left two days later. The highlight of the area is Pumalin Park which is formed from land owned by the creator of North Face clothing. With the weather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=55&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carretera Austral (Puyuhuapi)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McClements Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fishing village of Puyuhuapi was billed as the best place to stop en route to Chaiten. The guide book wasn’t wrong. It&#8217;s located at the head of a fjord of the same name and has thermal springs and Queulat park closeby. I hitched a ride to the park to see the hanging glacier Ventisquero Colgante. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=54&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carretera Austral (Coyhaique)</title>
		<link>http://mattmcclements.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/coyhaique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McClements Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff and I took a day to rest and plan&#8230; or rather eat and drink.We stumbled upon an empty restaurant and dined on succulent emu and local beer. Our second day in town proved to be more productive. We did a day hike in Reserva Forestal, I reserved a seat on a bus heading north [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=53&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The road to Chile and the Carretera Austral</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McClements Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left El Chanten with the sun shining and were welcomed to the town of Puerto Madryn by a stunning sunset.The dusty 10 hour bus journey along route 40 will soon be forgotten. The following morning we took a bus across the border to Chile Chico. You aren’t permited to carry any vegetable or animal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=52&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>El Chalten and Mount Fitzroy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McClements Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon entry to El Chalten, the park ranger informed us that we were lucky. Lucky that we had missed the three preceding weeks of sunshine and the associated risk of fires in the park. Lucky is not how I felt as I trekked through driving rain the following day to setup camp at De Agostini [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattmcclements.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1186305&amp;post=51&amp;subd=mattmcclements&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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