Settle for a drink and catch up on stories?Originally Posted by GazFish35
Settle for a drink and catch up on stories?
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Got up Tuesday 8th July 2014 at 7:40am. Showered and grabbed the gear and headed out. Wandered down to Florida St and exchanged some money $AR11.5:$US1
Headed to the corner store grabbed the items consumed from the mini bar and returned to hotel to restock before hitting the streets.
First up wanted to check out a plaza I had seen last time here but hadn’t actually visited. That done was stopped on the way by a bloke who wanted to talk to me. Bloke spoke excellent Ingles so had a good 15min chat until I found out he was hitting me up for money.
Walked off and heeded down to avenue 9th July the number uno street in Buenos Aires.
This avenue goes for kilometres and is about 100metres wide with about 4 roads through it. It also has the National Monument the Obelisk and a pile of advertising lights ala Piccadilly Circus. Done a bit more strolling this type down near the water front area.
That done onto some shopping. Picked up a Brazuca for the nephew, picked up a Boca Juniors t shirt and a shirt to commemorate the greatest footballer who ever lived bar Griffo.
Yep got a shirt with Diego Armando Maradona emblazoned all over it.
Went searching for a suitcase but not able to find one for under $50AUD ended up buying a large duffle bag for $AR1900 about $16AUD
Searched high and wide for something for my mother but so far am clueless on what to buy. It is either complete junk or items she has to pick herself.
As for the general shopping in Buenos Aires the amount of copy right infringement blows away any Asian flea market you will ever see. The Argentine National team shirt was done by Adidas LeCoqSportif Nike Puma Topper etc
All in various levels of shoddy quality and priced well below the price a genuine Argentina shirt from Adidas retails for
Feeling a bit beat up and hungry called into a restaurant for some steak. Absolutely fantastic.
Continued the shopping picking up a few more bits and pieces.
Ended up breaking into a coughing fit that made me contemplate suicide.
The temperature was freezing well not quite but so much of Buenos Aires doesn’t see daylight for long due to the high rises keeping the streets in the shade for 90% of the day. Due to the flu and it getting on towards 4pm decided to call it a day and head back to the hotel to watch the Alemania v Brazil semi-final.
Had planned to go to an open air screening of it but when you are sick it is cold you can’t be arsed either those plans fall apart easy
Well what a game. At one stage there I thought there was a type on the screen with the score. There wasn’t Deutschland were scoring that often I had missed one of the goals as they were just constantly showing replays of goals being scored an actual goal was scored and I just passed it off as another replay.
The streets in Argentina erupted with a glee and the sounds of vuvuzela’s foghorn etc resonated through the city every time Brazil was humiliated.
In one regard I was glad this happened to Brazil. The people for the most part were fantastic warm and hospitable. At the football though they were as arrogant as a 12year old Man u fan telling you why they are the greatest side ever
The 7-1 score line was a degree of karma for the arrogance they had
Anyway spent the night in the hotel room on the internet and watching the Simpsons in Española as the cold weather and the flu was really wearing me down. Ordered Room Service and got a great feed of steak and pasta.
Hit the hay just after 11:30pm
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Got up Wednesday 9th July 2014 at 6:40am. Showered and grabbed the gear and checked out
Grabbed a taxi and was heading to the airport. Was easy to grab a taxi as today was a public holiday in Argentina for their national day like Australia day so there was little happening.
Shame I had organised my travel to leave today well before the draw came out cause it would have been awesome to party with the Argentinians on their national day as they played for a spot in the WC final
Anyway checked in for my flight to Santiago Chile where I will be staying for a week before heading home
Had a hard time at the airport duty free trying to rid myself of my remaining Argentinian pesos. The things are worthless outside of Argentina
There is also only so much liquor you can buy which I did
Wandered back and forth trying to find something. Most of the stuff was overpriced or I had no need for. Ended up cleaning out most of the money buying some Winnie the Pooh plush toys for my 6 month old nephew
Paying for it was fun as the bloke in front bought nearly the entire store.
Left just enough money to get a drink of a bottle of water and a sandwich. Exactly what the met was I am not sure but it was not like anything I have seen before and I will be relieved if I never eat anything like it again.
Settled in on the flight with some tunes only to find the MP3 failed after 2songs as I hadn’t charged it. Sitting there bored I had a hard time staying awake.
Thanks to WLG recommendation I had got a window seat and up above the clouds the sun was shining I was rugged up it was warm and it was hard to stay awake with how exhausted I was
Succeeded by reminding myself of what the purpose was to stay awake and that was to admire the Andes Mountains as we approached Santiago.
Eventually remembered I had music on the phone so slipped it on.
After about an hour and a half of flying the mountains could be spotted in the distance. WLG was dead set right absolutely majestic with the snow glaciers lakes rises and falls 15mins of viewing we got and absolutely splendid.
After the mountains you are basically in Santiago so it was less than 10mins before we were on the ground.
Was ****ing delighted to see the pilot park the plane in the middle of the air field and not at the gate so we had to get a bus to the terminal. Can someone explain why billions are spent on airports yet people still have to disembark out in the airfield when you have the walkways to the plane door???
Headed in and had a pile of paperwork to fill in to enter Chile. After completing the paperwork had to go pay the Reciprocity Fee of $US117 as the Chileans impose this on Aussies as the Australian government fleeces Chilean’s this amount when they visit Australia
That paid through customs to get passport stamped. Luggage collected with a few moments of panic.
As I was one of the last off the plane and had the paperwork to do and was probably the only one on the plane to have to pay the Reciprocity fee I was one of the last to collect luggage.
There were a few suitcases off the conveyor belt. Went searching and found the suitcase. My bag with souvenirs was no where to be seen. Eventually located it after a few minutes of panic on a different conveyor belt.
Through customs timber smuggled into Chile now.��
Headed out grabbed some money and got a taxi. 20 min drive and was at my accommodation. Got quite lucky as I had to pay for my accommodation and the taxi fare came to the exact surplus amount of Chilean Pesos I had
Anyway was renting an apartment for a week for CLP$210000 about $Aud400
Had to wait about 10mins for the owner to turn up and meet me. Went in checked the place out and agreed to go ahead with the deal. Have a lounge room bedroom kitchen and small bathroom so no bidet
Best part is it is close to the metro and shops are within 200metres
Dropped the gear and headed out looking for a bank to top up my empty wallet. Took 3 banks with one even closing the door on me as I tried to enter?? WTF
Wallet full of cash grabbed some drinks and headed back to the apartment for some Johnny and to watch the Argentina V Holland game.
As for the game two afraid sides who neither wanted to win. Unfortunately one had to and the Argies triumphed on penalties.
Spent the night in hammering through the Johnny except to duck down stairs and grab some sushi from the shop under my apartment
Hit bed about 10pm
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Got up Thursday 10th July 2014 at 9:40am. ****ing slept in
**** it. Needed it big time
Coughed my hole up this cold is ****ing killing me. Showered and packed some gear and headed out to see a bit of Santiago
No map no ideas just headed out. Got to the street I got to yesterday and decided to head left
300m later and I came to some big fancy building. Pile of Chilean flags on it and looked important. No idea what it was but found out later it is Constitution Plaza.
Kept walking and ended up in a shopping precinct. Went into a few sporting goods stores. Full of shoes and **** all clothing.
Ended up in a shop and bought some balloons for my nephews. Being they ate 4-2-6months hours of fun with these things and even better they had cartoon characters on them
Now this is just an example of how ****ed up customer service is in South America. My purchase came to CLP$135 just over $2Aud
They had 3customer reps serving and the first 2 directed me away to a 3rd
This one wrote out a receipt and took the goods off me and gave me the receipt. I was then directed to one of the other stuff who hook the receipt off me and took my money and gave me change before giving the receipt back. I then had to front the 3rd tiff member who placed my item in plastic bag.
The whole process took 3-4minutes when 1 could accomplish it in 20seconds.FMD
After this stumbled on the office for the local tourist bus. Went in and spoke to the bloke in there. Bought the tourist bus ticket or CLP$20000 about $35Aud
Whilst there I also booked a day trip to a seaside town called Valparaiso and Vilna Del Mar. Monday at 8am I will be picked up from my apartment and taken to these places about an hour’s drive west on the Pacific Ocean coast.
Have heard good things about Valparaiso from people so if it is any good may even head back again
Headed to the bus stop and jumped on. Being first on got the pick of the seats and took the one up top at the front where the windscreen offers protection from the cold.
Must say the hour and a half circuit was an eye opener. My impression of Santiago from what I have read and seen so far were blown away. The further East we travelled into the Providencia and El Golf regions blew me away. Far more modern and stylish then I expected.
Drove past a golf course and realised I still hadn’t had a game over here yet. This course may well be given a miss as the fairways were a straw yellow colour most likely from the frost cold etc
All the while driving you got the occasional glimpse of the snow-capped Andes mountain range looming east of the city. Quite a spectacular back drop.
Ended up at the last stop and got out and checked out the museum of art. 600CLP entry so just over a dollar to look at some artwork
Being that it was now getting on 4pm decided to have a late lunch early dinner I made my way down to the Central Markets. Old school building of Chilean cuisine.
First thing that hits you as you walk in is the smell. It deadest smells like some birds twat. Correction some birds twat that has had 4pilchards up it for the last month.
The odour of fish was in the air big time.
Wandered in and found a restaurant. Place was full of them so was a matter of picking one and the first waiter who spoke to me in Ingles got my business
Sat down and ordered some Garlic Shrimp with some salsa accompaniment. Thing came out in one of those sizzling bowls you get from an Asian restaurant immersed in some fluid. Was fantastic
Next up for the main got the salmon which came in a white seafood sauce with shrimp mussels crib nest etc. lettered through it. Alright but had better Salmon dishes
Damage for food and drinks came to CLP $16000 about $30Aud
Might not seem like much but you would pay twice that back home for what I had.
After this as it was getting cold and about to get dark decided to make my way back to my apartment. It was 3C at 5pm and for someone with a bad cold not a good place to be out in.
On the way back stopped and picked up 4pairs of socks at a market stall for CLP$2000 about$3Aud which was handy as I am running low on them. Plus it is easier than washing them!!!!
Spent the night in watching a bit of TV internet Skyped home to HQ before tucking in at midnight
Last edited by MFKS; 13-07-2014 at 12:24 PM.
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Got up Friday 11th July 2014 at 9:40am. ****ing slept in
**** it. Needed it big time still need more though
Coughed my hole up this cold is still ****ing killing me.
Today it is foggy and overcast. That means it is ****ing freezing cold. Temperature will not reach double figures today which will mean it is going to be a cold night.
Headed down to the Metro which is less than 2 hundred metres from my apartment. Cost 690CLP a little over $1.30Aud to travel anywhere on the network. Good news with heading into the Metro is the temperature rose about 5C just going in.
Got the train 3stops and changed onto another line. Another 4stops later and I was out in suburbia. Well not luxurious suburbia but working class struggle class suburbia.
Despite the surroundings not being the best little fear as the people are lovely and it is a pretty safe place.
Set of on my mission to see the home ground for the Chilean NT and also the venue of the 1962 World Cup Final Estadio National.
Found out I had actually walked the wrong way and what should have been a 10 min walk turned into 25 as I took the scenic route.
Eventually came to be able to see the ground. Thing was fenced off about 80metres from the stadium. Found an open gate and was pulled up straight away. Through some broken Spanish and some broken Ingles was able to negotiate entry into the external perimeter but I wasn’t allowed into the actual ground. Anyway set off on a walk around the thing.
Absolute shit tip from the outside. The façade was kept as a modernisation project in recent years was done on the inside. The ground actually was used for prisoner interrogation detention execution etc during the coup d’état of Augusto Pinochet in 1973 so has a sordid history.
Wandered round but was unable to find an unlocked gate as I did at the Centenario in Montevideo. Took some photos and wandered off. Least I can say I have seen all the grounds the World Cup Finals have been played at in South America
Wandered off busting for a piss. One of the big problems over here is toilets are hard to find and not readily available. Not certain but I think I actually broke into the private quarters of the staff at a servo I came across. There was a sign up in Spanish about toilets and I just charged in an took a pass anyway
Headed back to the train station and jumped on bound for the eastern end of Providencia. Got off and walked across the over road footbridge to a shopping centre.
Next door to the shopping centre is Gran Torre Santiago the tallest building in South America. Wanted to go and see if they had n observation deck. They might one day. The exterior has been built but the interior s still a construction zone. Any way it still look impressive anyway.
Wandered into the shopping centre. Thing is 5 stories high. What is also bizarre is the escalators travel up into space. There is nothing stopping you after the handrail plummeting to your death
Going up from the 4th to the 5th floor the hand rail about waist height is the only thing stopping you plummeting about 80 metres to the first floor.
Wandered into a shop where you could buy just about anything.
Fridges TVs Computers Toilet Paper Beer delicatessen. This place had it all. Picked up a ball for my nephew for about $2Aud and a few other supplies.
Wandered back to my apartment. 1hour later and still not there and freezing my nuts off in the 3C temps got on the metro and saved another 2 hours of walking.
Got back dumped the gear and headed out to the Italian restaurant nearby for some pasta.
Headed back to the apartment for a quiet night in with my bottle of Johnny
what grade of jonny is it?
Is a "Johnny" some kind of Argentinian anti-inflammatory syrup? That's what you take when you have a horrid cough, right?
Black
Yes it is not an anti inflammatory.
Too much of this stuff and you lose co ordination
Does **** all for the cold also
JW Black Label - world's finest medicine....
if someone could translate the member's diary entries into english for me that would be greatly appreciated.
Ingles parksey, Ingles.
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Got up Saturday 12th July 2014 at 9:40am. ****ing slept in
Loving these sleep ins
Good news today was the sun had made a comeback and the weather wasn’t cold and miserable.
Anyway after the general business was taken care of heeded out searching for a mythical entity called a Café con Piernas.
Had been informed an out these establishments but didn’t quite believe the story. Basically they are coffee shops that you go to ogle women that come in your 3 categories and are a Chilean specialty.
First one is pretty easy to find. They have open glass windows and can be seen from the footpath. In these the staff wear basically short skirts and tight clothing. Nothing to get worked up about as they ain’t showing much
Second one and third one are findable but you have to search a bit more. They are not exactly in the public eye and are hidden in galleries. When you walk into these the women are dressed in lingerie swim wear etc basically as minimal fabric as possible only covering the minimal amount of person.
There is a slight difference between the second and the third one but it isn’t easily discernible. One you can go in stare at the chicks all you like have a chat drink your coffee and walk out the door. The other one though the chicks will molest you or allow you to molest them.
Anyway headed straight past the first types anytime I spotted one.
Found one of the other ones and wandered in. Ordered an Express for CLP$2000 under $4Aud. Downed my drink whilst staring at some great tits and arse. As none of them spoke Ingles any chance of small talk was out.
Wandered out and headed to another. Walked in ordered a cappuccino and was soon harassed by a bird. Had a great rack on her and this time we had a bit of dialogue with the translate app on the phone. After a bit headed out.
Wandered into another galleria that this time had 3 of the things in close proximity. Figured this would be a great place. Wandered in and knew I had struck pay dirt.
The women were walking around in slutty lingerie that barely covered anything. Some bloke was getting a lap dance in the corner a bird was burying some blokes face into her tits and another bird had an outfit on that was covering everything bar her tits.
Not long after I was approached and greeted by one of the girls. First up she walked up to me smiled and placed her hand on my chest before running her hand downwards and rubbing my crotch. FMD
Bit of small talk in some broken Ingles and some broken espanyol and she asked me something. I thought she asked me if I wanted a drink so I grabbed the wallet and pulled out a CLP$10000 (Approx$18Aud) note which was the smallest I had.
Turns out it was probably not drinks she offered. Next thing you know she has dragged me to the corner and is rubbing me up burying her tits in my face and giving me a lapdance.
Before too long she was unzipping my jeans and freeing it. She then proceeded tugging us off right there whilst dirty dancing to the music.
Anyway when that was done she gave me a kiss and I walked out the door. Never even ordered a drink
What a way to start the day.
Café Con Piernas need to definitely find their way to Australia
After this decided to head up to the El Golf area the rich end of town. Not the best idea as not much happening here on the week end. Wandered down to Providencia and done a bit of shopping.
Stopped in for lunch at Taco Bell for a burrito and taco. What though was good is they threw in some items that were like a prawn chip you get from the Chinese takeaway in consistency but were smaller and about the size of a finger and doused in cinnamon.
Continued with the shopping and window browsing as I made the long trek back to the apartment.
Got back in time for the Brazil V Holland game for the best of the losers trophy. Great to see Brazil end up with nothing.
Joga Bonito my arse.
Ref though was a disgrace though. How Tiago Silva wasn’t given a red in the second minute is baffling.
After the game headed out for a feed and grabbed a steak at a nearby restaurant. Not as good as in Argentina but still fantastic.
Headed back to the apartment to keep my friend Johnny company. Made it to bed about midnight
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Got up Sunday 13th July 2014 at 9:40am. ****ing slept in
Loving these sleep in
Got up and felt the urge to go Have a coffee. Unfortunately the Café Con Piernas were shut which was a ****ing tragedy as I was busy tomorrow.
Matter of fact nearly everything was shut. Basically Sundays in South America are dead. Locals must go to church or something. Did contemplate going to church but seeing as I hadn’t set foot in one for 20years figured no that will continue
Anyway decided to go somewhere I knew would be open to kill time before kick off to the World Cup Final which was on at 3pm local time.
Headed to Santiago Zoo. Thing is located on a hill and besides being dirt cheap like CLP $300pesos to enter should offer some good views of the city.
Got the metro train to the closest stop and then walked up to the zoo which was about 500metres away.
Getting to the entry to the zoo was fun. A good 500metre walk all uphill tested the legs lungs heart and everything out. Just outside the entry there was a great little view of the nearby snow capped Andes Mountains.
Took a few photos whilst coughing my hole up. That could also be down to the overwhelming odour of animal shut
Headed in once again the pathways headed up hill. Good news was that there were various animals to stop and look at on the way so you barely walked 30-40m before pausing. The elephants looked like they had Aids. Seriously they looked terrible.
Got to see a pile of weird and wonderful critters many I was familiar with others that I had never seen before.
The reptiles were a little lacking in quantity though the boa constrictor and python were interesting. The crocodile display was out of action unfortunately as the area was being renovated.
The lions and tigers were a bit of a disaster as the things being nocturnal were asleep as was the bear. Did get to see 2 aussie icons the emu and 3 hoppers. Surprisingly the hoppers were a popular thing with the locals.
Bizarre really. I hate the pricks of things and the only time I like them is when I have a rifle pointed at their heads or seeing them as roadkill on the side of roads.
After about 2 hours headed out and went to check out the local neighbourhood called Bella Vista.
On the way out there was a bloke hocking these whistle things. Picked up a few. As they are timber will have to be smuggled home.
Bella Vista is a bit of a grungey neighbourhood full of bars and restaurants. Äs it was getting on 1:30 and could feel the need for a dump headed back to the apartment.
Was gonna sit in and watch the game but as the TV was now on the blink headed back to Bella Vista. For some reason the apartment complex has got workmen in on WC final day to do some work on CCTV system and they have ****ed the antenna connections into the place.
Well done
Grabbed a table at an Italian restaurant 10 mins before kick off and watched the game. Ordered a BBQ pollo pizza and it arrived about 10 mins into the game. **** me the thing was rectangular and about 70cm x 30cm Ponied up and had the thing knocked off by half time.
Stayed for the rest of the match and had the misfortune to knock off a pile of the local beer called Cristal. This would have to be one of the worst brews on the planet. The thing is worse than blue tongue. It barely has a taste and is memorable for being plain. Good news is they were cheap at CLP$1000 each just under $2Aud
As for the match thought it was once again another poor world cup final. The last good one I seen was in 86. They are usually tepid affairs as both sides are more interested in not losing than winning. Anyway was relieved it didn’t go to penalties so I could stop drinking the Cristal.
Thank you Gotze
Am glad the Germans won. The way they have approached the game in the last 10years and the money they have poured into yoof development finally got them the reward they deserve. The way the Argies approached this tournament by parking the bus and scrapping all game and neglecting to utilise the talents they had up front properly got what it deserve
After the game headed back to the apartment. TV still ****ed so hit the internet for the round up of the game before hitting bed at 11:40pm. Would have been in bed earlier but was on facey with WLG asking me the hard questions for about an hour
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Got up Monday 13th July 2014 at 7:00am. No sleep in today
Shower and downstairs to wait for the tour bus pick up.
On a day trip to Valparaiso and Vina del Mar
Bus rep arrived for pick up at 8:20am 20 mins late. Then had to walk three hundred metres to meet the actual bus. Travelled across Santiago to the far side of town where we got out and had to get on another bus.
Basically all the different tours the company were running were leaving from this car park. Jumped on board for the trip which would take approx. 2 hours to Vilna Del Mar as we now had to drive all the way across Santiago again in peak hour traffic.
South American deficiency at its finest again. The punters on the trip could have been asked to congregate at various locations as the bus headed through Santiago and saved a shit load of time.
Settled back well didn’t really settle back as the bus was full and the seat I had chosen was broken. Well it had a fault. Basically it ever so slightly eased into the recline position. You would be sitting upright then in a couple of minutes you would be laying down.
Had a pile of Brazilians on the trip and only 2other English speakers. Both American. One of them I wanted to strangle as every time he spoke to me he used the word mate in some type of sarcastic stereotype.
Was really enjoying the Chilean countryside was quite inspiring and a little unique. After an hour we stopped at a shop for a rest stop. Obviously a good kick back for the bus company
Not long after it started to rain. I hadn’t actually seen rain for about a month. Last time I seen rain was in Rio at the start of June. The World Cup had come and gone and the closest I got to rain was rain causing issues for my plane to land but by the time we hit the ground it had stopped
Bit of an irritation as the rain brings fogging to the windows of the bus so the next hour was hard to see much out the window.
Made it into Vina del Mar as the rain was ongoing it made the next hour fun not.
As it barely rains in Chile the place gets less than 250mm a year the tour guys had very little idea what to do. The place we were going to was closed due to the rain so we had a bit of an ad hoc tour
Ended up going and seeing a monument from Easter Island. There are only 3 on the planet that have been moved from Easter Island which is a part of Chile about 5 hours plane ride away in the Pacific Ocean. This is the only one actually in Chile.
As it was raining it was a case of duck out get some photos get back on the bus and get going again.
Next up we stopped at the Ocean. Going for a swim here was out of the question. The surf was huge and dangerous plus due to Arctic Currents is on 12-13C
Not much good in summer either as those currents persist year round
Next up we stopped at some clock made out of flowers. The thing was fantastically done with flowers arranged in certain ways in different colours about the size of a centre circle on a football pitch. Better yet it had poles that moved and you could actually tell the time from it.
After this headed off for lunch at a seaside seafood restaurant.
Waited an hour for the meal and had the bizarre situation where the min came out minus the side of potatoes and the side of rice. Sat there looking confused for 3minutes before digging in. The fish was gone and then out came the potatoes and rice. Food was good anyway even if the restaurant struggled with their service and organisation.
After this went and had a walk by the waterfront. Got saturated but didn’t care. Had a raised vantage point so headed up and had a look out.
Finally headed back to the bus at 2:30 which became 2:50 by the time the stragglers arrived.
Ridiculous to have a 2 hour lunch break and even more ridiculous that people were late. I was at a table where we were the last to be fed so have NFI what everyone else was doing when I wasted 30mins by the water and still made it back on time
Anyway bus heeded off to Valparaiso and a short 15mins we were there. The rain had cleared and we got out for a walk. The town is very hilly. Some of the streets are near on 40degree inline. What’s worse is they go for 500m or 1.5km up hill.
Our bus took us up the top and we walked downhill thank Griff.
Lots of wonderful street art and we once again had some shoddy paving. As we were walked we were followed by dogs with two of them at one stage fighting for about 2mins
Ended up down the bottom with a splendid view over the town.
From here we took a cable car ride down the bottom. These things were about 1000 years old an operated on a pulley winch system and this is how the locals got around the place
After this jumped back on the bus and headed back to Santiago. Got back at 6pm and were stuck in traffic for 45 mins before we made it back to the shopping centre car park.
Here I made a huge mistake by taking up the offer to be dropped at my apartment. Should have got out and taken the metro which would have only taken 15-20mins tops. It took 20mins to drive out of the car park and turn the bus around I the traffic and pass the shopping centre.
After this we visited nearly every back street in Santiago.
Finally got dropped off but across the main drag 300metres from my apartment.
As it was raining then had to negotiate Santiago’s rain issues.
Basically water just pools here. Puddles are everywhere. As they got so little rain it is almost like storm water runoff wasn’t part of the town planning.
As a result you almost have to wade through the place in some parts to get home. Got in absolutely saturated.
Now the rain wasn’t that bad. It was at a level that would see NBN games called off though 4days before the match leaving everyone to ask why.
As for the tour the rain made a mess of the day but bit of a joke really.
1hour wasted at the start of the day getting picked up and going to the rendezvous point.
Two hours travel there.
1.5hours in Vina del Mar.
2hr 20mins on lunch 1hour in Valparaiso and then another 2hour trip home to Santiago.
Bit of a farce really.
Very little time spent actually seeing Valparaiso or Vilna del Mar which I thought was the reason we actually went
Headed out and grabbed some dinner. Went to KFC as I just couldn’t be ****ed having a sit down meal. Rather bizarrely my burger had avocado on it.
Took it back to the apartment and ate there before hitting the hay at 11:30pm
Café with legs
OK
And more by the sounds of it!Café with legs
WE DON'T DO WALKING AWAY !
did you photo this cause i never thought I would ever hear thisThe elephants looked like they had Aids. Seriously they looked terrible.
you home yet?
Membership issues?
Why do I get the sense that I just read a sanitised account of the Café Con Piernas?
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