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Adventures in Chile: Valparaíso
On Saturday we took a coach from Santiago to the coastal city of Valparaíso in Chile. Our hotel advised us to take the metro from Los Heroes to Pajaritos, which is an outlying station close to the motorway. From there we could board a bus and go directly to Valparaíso, avoiding the busy traffic if…
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Adventures in Chile, Part 4: Exploring Santiago and Valparaíso
We have been in Santiago for four days now, and are getting to know the 'Centro' area a little. We have also taken an excursion to the city of Valparaíso and I have had my first glimpse of the Pacific Ocean. I have also got a head cold, which is rather annoying when the temperatures…
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Adventures in Chile, Part 3: Santiago
Today I made my longest journey so far, travelling the 10,000+ kilometres to Santiago in Chile. Apart from learning just how hard it can be to try and sleep on a plane, I also learned that the in-flight entertainment system runs on Linux. It rebooted randomly and the plane was full of penguin logos which…
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Adventures in Chile, Part 1
Today, Tehmina and I have embarked upon the first leg of our journey to Chile. I’ve never been to North or South America before, nor have I ever done any travel blogging. So today marks the beginning of a whole new journey for me. Tehmina is giving a paper in Santiago at the World of…
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Resolving a fault on a BT phone line and the BT brick wall
For the last few weeks, there has been intermittent noise on our BT phone line. At best, this makes telephone conversations difficult, but worse of all, it plays havoc with our ADSL router. For the last week the noise has been rather persistent, and our router is constantly dropping the connection, and reconnecting at much…