I thought bird-watching was for pensioners until I flew 8,000 miles from home

I spent a week embracing nature 8,000 miles from home (Picture: Lucia Botfield)‘There’s no way you have gone all the way to South America to go bird watching’, a friend replied to my Instagram story a few days into my travels around Chilé. ‘My grandma would absolutely love this,’ she added.As a 23-year-old Londoner with a penchant for pub Thursdays and Rowan’s in Finsbury Park, aviary observation has never been high on my agenda.Neither, for that matte