Sailing around the world on a budget

[Roberto]

Not as cold as further south.

OT - personal
I have never been to Chile but it brings past memories. In the early '70s the chilean music band Inti Illimani went on tour in Europe bringing the Nueva Cancion Chilena sound, Allende presidency, rosy future/lendemains qui chantent, Violeta Parra, Cantos de pueblos andinos, etc.
Comes '73 Pinochet coup, the group remained in exile in Italy for years, then period of political ferment/turmoil, people in the streets sang Venceremos or El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido' , learning Chilean geography through their songs: Chiloe island and political prisoners, Chacabuco, Antofagasta copper mines, Coquimbo... places difficult to find on then school world atlas. One of their songs was ''Ciudad Ho-Chi-Minh'', took a while to find that in the atlas

 

[Frank Holden]

OT - personal
I have never been to Chile but it brings past memories. In the early '70s the chilean music band Inti Illimani went on tour in Europe bringing the Nueva Cancion Chilena sound, Allende presidency, rosy future/lendemains qui chantent, Violeta Parra, Cantos de pueblos andinos, etc.
Comes '73 Pinochet coup, the group remained in exile in Italy for years, then period of political ferment/turmoil, people in the streets sang Venceremos or El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido' , learning Chilean geography through their songs: Chiloe island and political prisoners, Chacabuco, Antofagasta copper mines, Coquimbo... places difficult to find on then school world atlas. One of their songs was ''Ciudad Ho-Chi-Minh'', took a while to find that in the atlas

Something I found in Valpo which you may find interesting - see the pic below - its in the port at Valpo. Worth doing a bit of research on. Pablo's house is just south of Algarrobo.

Ah - Chilean politics -sigh

We left the boat in Ecuador for a few months in late 2019 - November.
We had a few weeks to kill before flying out of Stiago. Thought of going to Bolivia for a spell but a bit of unrest there so decided to go by bus back to Pto Montt. Simple plan. Lima - Arica - Iquique - La Serana - Santiago- what could go wrong?
A few days in Iquique next to the Plaza de Armas - gun shots and stuff through the night.
La Serena ? A few more days there
Serene enough - taxi driver to the bus depot - "where are you going?' 'Santiago'. 'Good luck with that!!'
Santiago - bus doesn't go to the terminal - drops us off at a very dark hour up some back street. we get a taxi thinking that we will get accomodation at an airport hotel. No joy but we did find a bed in the Hilton at the far side of town in Providencia.
Get a hire car / limo sort of thing who takes the great circle route to avoid the riots in the centre
Suggest to him that maybe tourism is dead at the moment.
'Yup' he sez ' dead as '; then he pauses ' Nope that's not quite right - I did pick up two crazy gringos this evening'.
I love the cruising lifestyle
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[BobnLesley]

Yup, Covid was a bitch. Pretty much everything stopped for me except the ageing process.
All I've managed to do since is get the boat back from Ecuador to Chile.
Still trying to get the wheels turning properly again.

Kiwiland was probably a much better place to get stuck than Ecuador.
We took the realistic/pragmatic approach and within a couple of months of having been locked out of NZ (We were sat in Gatwick Airport waiting for our flight to Auckland when their doors closed) we'd managed to remotely import and sell the boat to a local.
Yes, the price was low, but that 'discount' was far less than the cost of two year's (our guess had been 'it'll be at least a year before we get back to her) storage, insurance and deterioration; plus it gave us one (major) thing less to worry about.

 

[Frank Holden]

Kiwiland was probably a much better place to get stuck than Ecuador.
We took the realistic/pragmatic approach and within a couple of months of having been locked out of NZ (We were sat in Gatwick Airport waiting for our flight to Auckland when their doors closed) we'd managed to remotely import and sell the boat to a local.
Yes, the price was low, but that 'discount' was far less than the cost of two year's (our guess had been 'it'll be at least a year before we get back to her) storage, insurance and deterioration; plus it gave us one (major) thing less to worry about.

Oh I don't know. Ecuador was OK. I didn't see the boat for over two years but she was in good enough shape when I got back. Only took a year to get back on the dustless road again. Spent some of that time in the interior, lovely place, nothing like what I expected.

You were lucky to have your boat in NZ. Met a couple from Mexico Norte a few months ago. They had been caught in the US with their boat in Australia. Treated incredibly badly by 'Border Farce'.

 

[Wansworth]

Oh I don't know. Ecuador was OK. I didn't see the boat for over two years but she was in good enough shape when I got back. Only took a year to get back on the dustless road again. Spent some of that time in the interior, lovely place, nothing like what I expected.

You were lucky to have your boat in NZ. Met a couple from Mexico Norte a few months ago. They had been caught in the US with their boat in Australia. Treated incredibly badly by 'Border Farce'.

It comes from the top down!