A few images, since I have access to a new laptop...

I am not going to write a lot today, but I thought I would put up a few images.
Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend in Canada and all the best. Robyn


Our guide at the Museo O`Higgins in period colonial dress. She was great and brought us through each of the themed rooms of the museum with aplomb and lots to say about everything.


Today`s tour of a paper mill with Luis Arraya. It was really quite fascinating to wander around and to chat with him about the market and the challenges and advantages for a Chilean company. It also brought back memories of my youth when we used to tour the paper mill where my dad worked. This mill only uses mechanical processes and peroxide so it just smelled a bit like a wet cat, but nothing worse






The cordillera near to the Cementos Bio Bio minesite. The snow was fresh on the ground, but only a little of it (5-7 cm). We also saw a zorro (fox) up there, but that wasn`t as thrilling as it might have been since the people on site tend to feed them. It was absolutely stunningly beautiful up there are we were about 1 hour by horseback from the valley where the plane crashed with the Uruguayan soccer team in the 1970s. This situation was the one about which the movie and book Alive were created.