8th/9th November: 36 hours of flights and transfers

As predicted by my itinerary, today has been a pretty boring day, with far too long spent in airport departure lounges. The trip to Iquique involves three flights: London-Madrid, Madrid-Santiago, Santiago-Iquique. Unfortunately flight availability conspired against me, even though I booked the flights in March, and so each of the connections was incredibly long. All…

Radio activity from Chile

As some of you might be aware, I’m going travelling in Chile for most of November and December. This isn’t a radio DXpedition as I can only take one 23kg suitcase to last 6 weeks and clothes and camping stuff have to take priority! That said, I do have a Chilean licence, and I am taking…