Altos Del Mapocho Santiago

... appears to be some pretty cool crafty type stuff to window shop which might keep me occupied. Seem to like their Penguins. Oh and Jeff, I can absolutely say for certain that Football IS the Sport-To-Watch here. Football games out match flight information on the televisions in the terminal.

Thats it for me. Have 6 more hours until I have to start looking for where bouts my Peru flight goes from. Going to find a nice seat to ...

... hours time. As it happens Andy is a Tax Accountant for KPMG, exactly the type of person I was trying to find for my last position I was recruiting for at work before I left. I should have known at the time that if I’d put an advert on a bus in Peru I might have had more luck!

The second part of the trip was again pretty painless and the steward took pity on us and our lack of Spanish so kept slipping us extra food portions and handfuls of sweets ...

So we landed at 3am, it was dark, a bit rainy and we weren't sure how far it was into the city from the airport. We decided that a taxi would be the best idea. We'd already changed some cash over in Peru so didn't have to traipse around the airport to find a cash machine. It was a bit tricky at first getting used to the exchange rate of 850 Chilean Pesos to the Pound. So later that day we decided 150,000 ...

... was a a bit smoggy so you could only see the tops off the mountains but we went to have a look at the statue of Our Lady and the smog cleared so we got a really good view.

We had one really good night out in Santiago with a buch of people we met in the hostel. We went to a place called Tu Tu Tanga where we were up Salsa dancing (well pretending to) with the locals. Nick got rather inebriated and was trying to talk to a dirty tramp in his drunken ...

... fro the next few days, before returning to the hostel. With not much open and not a lot to do we just hung around the hostel for the rest of the afternoon. We had an earlish tea with a bottle of wine followed by a couple of games of cards before watching a film. After the 1st film Daniel went to bed whilst the girls stayed up and watched another. 4th May 2009 A little lie in today before catching the metro again, this time to the next stop on. We were meant to be ...

... 8216;little’ old woman who insisted on reclining her seat back as far as it would go despite the
fact that it was up against Tom’s knees. Looking back it was quite funny – an old lady bouncing up and down on Tom`s lap (well she might have well as been), cursing under her breath with me trying to explain in rubbish Spanish why she couldn’t move it further. They’re ...

... office (a real office, not a tourist agent) to book my flight to Madrid. Debbie and I sat around planning my 1-year European trip over beer again, and I finally went back to the AA office to book the flight! I am so excited, but....have to finish this one first! We had taken the subway to el centro to the AA office, and Debbie knew her way around the subway like a ...

... are absolutely loads of nice bars and restaurants, and the people at the hostel are really cool. Having loads of fun! Unfortunately, things are quite expensive here, and the cash is going down quite rapidly, which means we might have to hotfoot it to the pennypinchers haven that is Bolivia quite soon! Our plan is to head up to a few places along the chilean coast, and then up to the atacama desert, and across to Bolivia to do a tour of the salt flats. Fun times ahead. Chau.

... which no wine was stolen again! This particular cellar has natural ideal conditions for the red wine to be oaked in French barrels costing $1,000 per barrel. Barrels are used 4 times before being cleaned and sent to USA and Scotland to be used in whiskey and rum production. As we are both great lovers of vino, we had been looking forward to today for a while and it did not fail to disappoint!

... mostly make instant coffee, even though such excellent coffee is grown here in South America. Iīve been told that itīs because all the good stuff gets exported, because they make more money that way. Besides a lot of indigestion, up next was a tour to a lovely little family-run winery called Cavas de Raco, I believe. The owner conducted the tour, and provided numerous insights into his traditional methods of production. You had to ...