Nearly five months that we are in Valdivia, we didn’t see time flying, and we could want to stay longer, as we love this country so much. Valdivia, where so many sailers, famous and unknown, came trough, where we will have news of those who came before us, where we will met our friends of “Fleur de Passion”, met Arnaud and Morgane of “Paradise”, Marja and Stephen, on “Motu”, met Tite, companion for the South seas of Willy de Ross…In the Club de Yates of Valdivia as much as in La Estancilla we will be welcomed, helped, spoiled by Jorge, Marcelo, Humberto, Jonathan, the friend Chacho… The dogs Samanta and Maxima will stuck to us. Valdivia, it’s also our gate of entry for Chile, a country we wanted to reach for a long time. We will discover it, the soil is rich here, the fluvial market is realy gorgeous, the food is good, the vine too, the beer flows, inheritage of the German colons whose print and presence are strong. There are the Mapuches, dwellers of this land since millenniums, facing the modern world, there is the marks of the past, deep, witness of men’s folly and of the wrath of nature. there is the rios, the woods of eucalyptus, the mimosa, the copihue, the emblematic flower of Chile, multituds of birds, grebs, pelicans, swans, kingfishers….ibis, vultures. There are the horses, splendids. There is rain too, of course, but sun also, the climate is warming….
We will soon sail for Puerto Montt, then Chiloe, we will tell you.
