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December 30, 2009
Outreach – Bariloche Day 4
Today we climb a mountain. The idea was to reach the top, but after a late night last night, and with a very late start to the day, our chances were diminishing rapidly. Add to this a very large group of people, and you start moving quite…
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December 29, 2009
Outreach – Bariloche Day 3
Today I wake with one eye stuck closed. After washing it with water and heading to the doctors I am informed that it is conjunctivitis, a common ailment here often contracted through dust entering the eye. Unfortunately, all of the…
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December 28, 2009
Outreach – Bariloche Day 2
Our second day is quite different, and we spend the morning building brick walls, cooking bread and gnocchi for lunch. All of us get to do something that we have not done before, and have fun doing it too. After lunch we then put on…
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December 27, 2009
Outreach – Bariloche Day 1
On the 26th of December, Boxing Day, we gathered our team together and heading off on an 18 hour bus journey from Puerto Madryn to Bariloche. Upon arriving in Bariloche, we head out to the church with which we will be working for the next…
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June 9, 2008
Conquering the Snow
A Day of Small Beginnings It was a bleak day when I set out towards town, ducking down to follow alongside a burbling stream with the aim of walking along the rocky beaches facing Lake Nahuel Huapi. This was a more preferable route…
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May 9, 2008
The Effects of a Volcano
The ashes of the Chaiten volcano in Chile have now reached Buenos Aires.
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May 8, 2008
Volcano Next Door and Other Activities
I imagine that You are probably already informed of the volcano in Chaiten, Chile that is currently in eruption. Well this smoking mountain is only a few hundred kilometres from me on the other side of the Andes Mountains. We have been…
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April 11, 2008
Life in Bariloche
In early March I returned from Peru to arrive back in my home base of Puerto Madryn. Late to mid March I was on the move again, to spend two months in Bariloche, a beautiful city nestled right in amongst the Andes mountain ranges and…
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March 17, 2008
Back in Madryn – But Going Again
I guess it has been a while since writing something here. Life in missions seems to get really hectic at times. Even when I was travelling there seemed to be more time to write than now-a-days. At the end of every day, when I normally…
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January 8, 2005
Trekking the Andes Mountains at Bariloche
Bariloche was our last stop during this stretch of travelling, and we had determined that we really wanted to walk across the Andes Mountains. Since this was the first time that we had considered something like this, many people…
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