There and back again

Okay, I know.. I have been MIA, missing in action, for a while. 


The first thing you'll notice is probably the design change - now the pictures have more space and look better. The second thing is the name. I haven't been in Chile for a while now, and a lot of posts are about other places; so I thought a name change was in order.

So, how to sum up more than a month's travel around South America, not forgetting Christmas in Santiago? 
Through pictures of course - with the fantastic use of Instagram (I have been playing with it for 2 hours - I think I am in love <3)
 

Trying to make a Danish Christmas with pebernødder, risengrød and glögg

After a gluttonous Christmas and Nick's goodbye party, it was time for...

At Santiago airport going to Rio

Of course completely disregarding the fact that Peru also has pisco sour - true Chilean style! 















New Year's Eve in Rio de Janeiro can be boiled down to this...

All-white party and fireworks at Copacabana beach

After recovering from a hangover in 35 degrees, Natascha, Julie and I headed off to Montevideo in Uruguay. After a few days, Thibault joined us, replacing Natascha who left early for Buenos Aires.

Uruguay - great company, colonial architecture and some words of wisdom

A "sibling's" fight over the cheese platter

After a few days in Uruguay, we took the boat "across the pond" to Buenos Aires. Since we already had played tourists the first we were there, we just enjoyed the food.



And then the inevitable happened... Thibault and Julie wanted to go south in Argentina and I wanted to go north. So we went our separate ways and I was, for the first time, all alone. But as I quickly discovered: You are never alone when traveling alone. I met so many great people  - if we only shared a beer or ended up traveling around together for some days.








The first stop was the breathtaking Iguazu waterfalls

True wonder of nature

You can get a better feeling of the magnitude of the waterfall in this video I made:

Then I headed off to Paraty, Brazil

Surfer's paradise

Snapshot of weather in Paraty

Everyday around 6 pm the lovely beach weather was ruined by the rain - you cannot count on the buses arriving on time, but the rain does!

 And so I came full circle ending up in the city where I started: Rio de Janeiro 

View from Sugar Loaf Mountain 

Sun setting on Christ the Redeemer seen from Sugar Loaf Mountain

I had plenty of time being a tourist second time around

It had now been more than a month since I left Chile and seven months since I left Denmark. With an overly satisfied travel-urge I was ready to head back home. When I literally got a wound on my foot from wearing flip-flops too much, I knew it was time. Looking back on it now, I cannot understand, how I could be looking forward to the cold February weather in Copenhagen; but the truth was, that I did.


Now, what I miss the most is not the heat, but the people.. <3