Travels in a Thin Country

I've just finished reading Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler - close to my heart, because she's an (Oxford) modern linguist. Katherine read it while I was still ploughing through Solzhenitsyn.

It's an interesting book, about the author's travels in Chile. She did more or less the same things as us: north to south, with stops at the El Tatio geysers, the Concha y Toro vineyard, Santiago and so on. She even catches the same ship that we're about to board on Monday. She also took lots of pointless detours deep into the Andes, and to be honest she didn't seem to have as much fun as we did! Still, if you want to learn more about the places we've been to (in a more eloquent style than Katherine and I could ever hope to achieve :-) it's an interesting read.