{"id":2178,"date":"2016-11-09T10:11:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2017-01-05T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:55:21","slug":"trip-through-chile-and-welsh-patagonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/2178","title":{"rendered":"Trip through Chile and [Welsh] Patagonia \u2013 Day 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Mart\u00edn de los Andes, Wednesday 09 November 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, we’ll soon be on the move again, the ‘we’ including\u00a0my sister Caroline \u2013out on a trip from Wales\u2013 with whom I’ll be sharing the blog for this trip. The idea is to see something of Patagonia – taking in part of Chile, and following\u00a0the Welsh belt across to the Atlantic seaboard, with a wild life visit to the Peninsula Valdes<\/a> thrown in. Lots of yummy shellfish on the Pacific coast and sea lions and elephants, penguins and [hopefully calving] whales on the Atlantic.\u00a0We’ll be blogging together, and uploading observations, reflections and photos as the whim takes us. Fingers crossed for a good Internet signal as we travel south.<\/p>\n

\"Planned

Planned itinerary – subject to ongoing revision<\/p><\/div>\n

Above\u00a0is the route we intend to\u00a0cover, starting and finishing in San Mart\u00edn de los Andes. We start by driving into Chile through the Tromen pass at Mamuil\u00a0Mamal, driving through the lovely tourist town of Puc\u00f3n\u00a0and then across to Chile’s Ruta 5, and down as far as Valdivia where we’ll spend the first night. After exploring Puerto Montt and the island of Chiloe we drive back into Argentina across the Pueyehue pass and then westwards to Welsh Patagonia. More as we go.<\/p>\n

\"Preparing

Preparing Silver with spare wheels and petrol cans.<\/p><\/div>\n

So today is a day of last minute preparations. We intend to leave early tomorrow, Thursday\u00a010 November 2016, and still have a few things to sort but we’ll leave on time. Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Mart\u00edn de los Andes, Wednesday 09 November 2016 Well, we’ll soon be on the move again, the ‘we’ including\u00a0my sister Caroline \u2013out on a trip from Wales\u2013 with whom I’ll be sharing the blog for this trip. The idea … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-2","category-trip-welsh-patagonia-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}