WELCOME - BIENVENIDOS - YOUKOSO - BIENVENUTTO - WILLKOMMEN Hi all! Thanks for dropping by! Here is a little bit of info about me :)
I am currently living in
Santiago, Chile. My work moved me to
Santiago, for 6 months from June 2006 which finished in December however... I did such a good job that I am going to be staying for another 2 years! Yay!!
NEWS - Christian proposed to me on 18th July 2007 and I said yes, we got engaged and then married on 5th January 2008 in Curacavi, Chile.
Now that I am married to a Chilean I am sure I will be spending a large chunk of my future in this country. Work is keeping me busy so I haven't done much work on my Chile pages so far but if you have any questions about Chile I am happy for you to contact me. 2008 has taken me back to
New Zealand where I am from. My hometown is
Auckland where I grew up and where my parents and two of my three brothers still call home. I have also had the good fortune to travel to Brazil where became acquainted with
Sao Paulo and
Ribeirao Preto. I have travelled a couple of times within Chile also to
Osorno in the Lakes District of Southern Chile and to the coast about 1 1/2 hours from
Santiago, to
Vina del Mar and
ConCon.
In the Christmas / New Year period of 2006/07 I went travelling through
Peru and
Bolivia. I was so excited leading up to this trip as I have dreamed about the Inca Trail as long as I can remember. It certainly met my expectations and then some! I have started the slow process of uploading thousands (I am not kidding) of photographs on the various city pages for these locations.
Before that I was living in the beautiful country of
Japan for 4 years. If you take a look at my Japan pages you will notice a fair bit of information on various places around the country. I am most familiar with
Nagano and Fukuoka Prefectures (specifically the city of
Kitakyushu).
During my time living in Japan I was fortunate to visit many countries in
Asia including
Seoul in Korea and
Mongolia which was the was the experience of a lifetime. I stayed with a Mongolian family in Ulaan Baatar. I travelled to the countryside with them also. I experienced real Mongolian life for a month and loved it!!
Probably the trip that really shaped the person I have become was my time living in
Honduras in the small coastal town of
Tela, Atlantida. Forever the people of Honduras will be in my heart and soul and I will never forget the way they took me in and shared so much of themselves with me.
If you have any questions about any of the places I have been then please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.