Novotel Vitacura Santiago

... the pain that airports inflict on poor passengers, we get busted for trying to smuggle a third of a bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin, a bottle of water and factor 50 sun block on to the airplane. The water and gin are the preferred weapons of the modern terrorists (as eny fule kno) but the sunblock would have been fine had it been in a plastic bag but, as it was not, it was plainly dangerous and suspected of having transformed into semtex.

In Santiago, we ...

Ziva i zdrava u Santiagu! Nakon veceri provedene u disku gdje pustaju reggeaton, uz porno-plesanje osamnaestogodisnjakinja (koje su se natjecale koja ce ispasti veca kurva samo da bi dobila picze!), pisco sour i pisco colu, nakon hot doga bez hrenovke, ali s KISELIM KUPUSOM, evo me ziva i zdrava! oko 3h idemo u razgledavanje grada. sutra valjda idem za antofagastu (ca. 18h u busu, ali kao ...

... up coming home earlier and earlier each day. We went round the Patronato, the clothes district with a hangover after drinking Pisco the first night. We went to the Starwars exhibition which was brilliant, loads of costumes and models from all six films, including the original Darth Vader and Boba Fett ones. We went up Cerro San Cristobal, the main hill in the centre of the city, by cable car and down by funicular. The incredible layer of smog which covers the ...

... 8 foot giant. There was about 3 foot of gather at the bottom cos she;s only 4ft 4" stood on a dog **** lol. (I'm sure I missed out half an inch that she will correct me on. Another suggestion was "Mio you must leather jacket from Chile - iz beautiful". I thought aye yeah it will come in right useful too in 90 degrees on the beach. Gina wasn't a sleeper either so try as I might to get a bit of shut eye it was not gonna happen. She was whipping the ...

... rodeo. They use special horses that are only bred in Chile. They can walk sideways and are very smooth when they perform. They also do this interesting sliding stop. After the rodeo, we were treated to a very nice traditional Chilean lunch. The hospitality was tremendous. It took about an hour to get to Santiago from the ranch. Santiago is a ...

... make a triangle: Easter Island - Atacama - Torres del Paine. All three places looked like a tourist circus but I had little time and choice. Torres del Paine was dumped first - too far, Atacama - second but for a different reason. I drew a nice loop in my mind starting in Arequipa in Peru going to Titicaca, then to La Paz in Bolivia, then via stratospheric highway where bus drivers rumored to keep a stock of oxygen ...

... like salsa that came out of a jar. On our tour guide´s recommendation (Martin), we went with the Lomo Chorizo Pobre. Holy ****! I expected a tiny, thin steak from what I had previously seen in Chile - ours were MASSIVE! It was the size of a small roast! I originally had wanted a fruit cup for dessert, but there was no way I could eat another bite after that main course. There was room, however, for a rather putrid cafe cortado ...

... im Stadtzentrum, riesig und die Mitbewohner scheinen mir auf den ersten Blick auch ziemlich okay. Ich habe übrigens auch schon eine Nummer: +56989937855. Und meine Adresse ist: Florian Hochstrasser Santa Maria 2390 Barrio Brazil Santiago de Chile Chile

... the streets of Santiago!





By now Katie & I were both trashed, but having a fantastic time!



Katie made friends with a cute little girl who was enjoying the show up on her Mum's shoulders, who I think found Katie's electric blue wig ...