A little update and the spring is coming!

Wow, almost 3 months since our last post. Must be a sign that our life in Chile is becoming normality as opposed to something exciting to blog about. Anyway, we're still here and maybe it's time for a quick update...

The last weeks were filled with a lot of work, a trip to Europe (conferences, work meetings, family visits, etc), a work trip to San Pedro de Atacama, a couple of wintery hikes and nice encounters with several new couch surfers who stayed with us.

One of us also managed to fit in a short weekend trip to Canada (awful for the eco footprint and ashamed about it! but a real paradise for vegans with vegan-friendly shops and restaurants scattered all over Montreal). This trip was work related so feel a bit better about it.

We've also made progess on the "admin front": Christian is now a permanent resident and Patricia is "en tramite", which means she should get her papers within the next few weeks. We even managed to get Christian a bank account, which took several attempts with three different banks. But in the end the good old "vitamin C" method (i.e. C for connections, somebody knows somebody who can help) got us the desired result. The internet banking still doesn't work but hey, we didn't expect there wouldn't be any teething problems...

The worst of the southern winter is over, we've had the first few nice spring days (today 28°C), and our mini veggie garden is now at it's most productive. We've got tons of chard growing everywhere, kale, some broad beans, a few broccoli plants (not quite ready, yet), lettuce and rucola, some of the last tomatoes which ripened in the winter sun and a kamikaze sun flower (although that one did get some frost damage a couple of weeks ago, so probably won't make it). And, we even collected 3 peanuts from some plants which grew over last summer (may not sound like a great achievement but who would have thought peanuts are tubers and not nuts?).

Veg-warriors getting ready for the summer and we will be posting again soon as some really exciting (not that exciting ;o)) updates are coming!