Intercontinental Hotels Santiago

Off to the Andes! I was picked up at 8am by my guide (whose name I never caught). It was just three of us, a marine from North Carolina was with us. The whole day was in Spanish so any information may not be quite correct... We were headed for San Jose volcano and some hot springs near there, at aroud 3000 metres. I am not sure if it really was that high - didn´t feel very high! The moutains are ...

... English 80´s pop. And it´s everywhere, I cannot escape Depeche Mode, The Smiths and The Cure. I feel like giving them my ipod to listen to White Lies and The Zutons and saying - "go on listen to that, you´ll love it in 20 years!" Not that I´m complaining because I love that stuff but where is the Salsa?! A load of new Latino artists seem to be impersonating American rappers from about 10 years ago too and making a nasty noise. It´s a weird mix ...

... way to the cabel car.Went up and had great views of the city even though it was really smoggy, it kinda added character to the city. Saw the Virgin Mary statue, very similar to Christo in Rio. I then went to San Francisco church which was huge, but not really my thing so didnt stay long. Went to the nationallibrary and aomodern art museum. On my second day i brought a ticket ...

... best of all, a table decorated as the films rose petal-strewn bed... And there we spent the rest of the evening, eating and drinking to excess, but thankfully not experiencing any of the cooks' emotions, as in the film, only our own jovial, celebratory mood! We reminisced about events and characters from my Maceio days: Mr Hotel, Big Lou, the beer-drinking diplomas, Bigsy and Ted and the wallet episode... and we ...

... with the subway system, and decided to start exploring different parts of the city. We fell in love with Providencia, a commercial and busy part of the city with lots of trees and parks. We also explored Las Condes, which is at the very end of one of the subway lines... we got lost there for a good two hours trying to find this supposedly awesome mall and park... not ...

... En effet, il y a une file d'attente de plusieurs heures pour passer du côté Chilien. Les douaniers font descendre tous les passagers du bus pour les emmener dans le poste de contrôle. Ils vérifient aux rayons X que vous ne faites pas transiter des produits comme de la nourriture (fruits, légumes, produits laitiers, viandes etc.) ou des matières comme le bois, les pierres fossilisées etc. Les sacs à dos sont passés aux rayons X à cet ...

... bit embarrassed, saying that this was the first time she had heard something like this. That very humble attitude is also quite common in Spain, and like I've said many times before, there is nothing more attractive than a woman who has no idea how beautiful she is. Again, none of it was a line (though had she responded with "Oh, I am so flattered! Let's have drinks later!", I definitely would not have refused ...), it was all ...

... place, at times it resembled one huge Amsterdam cannabis cafe, but without the cannabis. It eats Beaver and listens to Tibetan sounds, amongst others. The worst music was in Ecuador. Bus journeys, of which we took many, were all at a nightmare volume of 3 legged trotting Rumba or hellish macho movies on the TV. Peru has its Inca sounds which have their time and place but that isn´t while you are trying to eat a quit meal - and that is when we were ...