1. Surprise, we're going to the end of the world

29th Oct 2013

     I like to surprise Andrew, whether that be jumping out from behind a door when he is innocently wandering around the house looking for me or not being angry at him for taking more than a year to finish the renovation of our en-suite! Birthdays are for surprises, I don't bother with little gifts for birthdays, x-mas, anniversaries, fathers day etc I just save them up and go the grand gesture once a decade. Last decade I surprised Andrew with a motorbike

Andrew and Harriet the Chariot 

      This year, for his 50th, I surprised Andrew with a trip to the end of the world, three weeks in Patagonia. To this day I'm astounded that Andrew didn't get tipped off early as I spread to word far and wide in the hope that someone I knew had been there and could give me some pointers, no one had and information was hard to come by. So knowing that I wanted us to hike the  Torres del Paine circuit but lacking any more information and lacking the time to find it ( only 2 week before Andrews birthday and during a busy work period )  I headed into Noosa & Cooroy Cruise and Travel where Natalie got me a good deal on flights and Veronica gave me some little gems of information that made making our plans once we reached Chile much easier. I did find out in the weeks before we left that 2 of our mountain biking friends had actually met and fallen in love in Patagonia, so I was right it was a romantic place to go.