Cycling dogs, vegetable milks and language classes!

Most dogs we know (just like most people) are massively underexercised (with workout routine of fence barking and lazying around in the front garden if they are lucky). We make an effort with Mario to keep him in shape but this has clear time constraints as we both spend quite a lot of time working 5 days a week (not to mention language classes and trying to keep ourselves in good shape too)....

Our first earthquake

Today we experienced a little earthquake, the first one since we moved here. It occured around 20min to 5 in the morning and we probably wouldn't have noticed it had the phone not rung 5 minutes prior to that (...some random call which we ignored but which woke us up).

Summer in (and out of) the City

Before moving to Santiago the two of us lived in the Rainy Kingdom. Each year sometime around the month of May the press which is also called yellow started speculating about the likelihood of an exceptional BBQ summer that may or may not lie ahead. Usually references were made to some complicated science from the Queen's witches and wizzards at the Met Office. Needless to say, in all those years we lived there, those BBQ summers never arrived. And so the years passed by, 8 months of autumn followed by 4 months of spring, two seasons and that was it.

Our move to Chile

It was 4 months ago (almost to the day) that we first arrived in Santiago. Each of us had one backpack and one suitacase. Since then, we have found a place to live, met a dog friend, opened a bank account, got registered with the health system, got a pension plan (yuk) and I have had my Visa approved (and now have an ID card! :o)).