Ultramar Valparaiso

Las fiestas partias basicamente se componen de los elementos siguientes:<br><br>Asados (CARNE: anticuchos, pollo, bistec, empanadas, etc)<br>Cuecas (ahora puedo tocar una cueca en la guitarra!)<br>Chicha (o, realmente cualquier trago. Yo incluso probé la cola del mono, pero no me gustó para nada)<br><br>A lo mejor esa fue la mejor semana que he pasado aquí en Chile<br>

... even completos?" (although obviously in Spanish not English) to be told "Oh yeah, we have completos" and she toddled off to get our hotdogs. <br><br>Even though the bar was quite old and all of the locals middle aged, they had a banging jukebox. However, it was only playing the cheesy latin music so, fancying a change, I wandered up to pick a different track. Out of nowhere an eldery man - who Tiago later likened to Bert of Bert and Ernie fame - first asked Tiago in ...

... that was the only thing on offer &#8211;(a massive meal made from Chips, Onions &amp; Prok &#8211; weird!) from the Lonely Planet. Wandered back that afternoon and chilled out and eventually went to get beers &#8211; 5 litres each for some silly reason(10 pints!)Drinking games started again. We were playing with 2 americans that were staying in the Hostel &amp; and an Australian girl called Jackie also joined in. Luckily we hadn't eaten any dinner too so that helped with the ...

... picked me up from the University. Margarita and <br> I went up the hills of Valparaiso in un acensor (ski lift? or <br> outdoor elevator type thing?) It was right along the <br> seaport. This seaport only handles <br> containers. There's a large machine that loads the full <br> containers onto huge barges and ships and takes the empty ones <br> to be filled by trucks or trains ...

... the "Museo de Ciel Abierta" (Museum of Open Sky), which is a series of murals that wind through a neighborhood. The murals were generally a bit abstract for me, but I did like this one, depicting Valparaiso as a sleeping cat. I wondered why the artist chose a cat rather than a dog. There are dogs everywhere here--worse than anywhere I have been. Those who travel with me know that I am pretty tolerant and make canine friends ...

... nous faison des Melon con Vino (melons jaunes vides et remplis de vin blanc et de sucre et utilises comme verres, c'est delicieux) Puis nous matons un film Lucie et moi dans un lit. C'est bete a dire mais c'est tres agreable de pouvoir retrouver ce genre de confort apres un mois d'errance. On decide de rester ici quelques temps avant de repartir.

... dock area and watched a feew of the boat trips leave. That was hilarious - boats would pull up at the dock and push other boats out of the way so that they could get to the fron of the queue quicker and then maybe 4 people would get on board for a tour of the harbour. There were boats literally pushing each other out of the way and crashing into each other, all to get closer to the front! The main boat there was overpacked with people and even that got shunted out of the way to ...

... was not so enthusiastic and usually after about 10-20 seconds of galloping, seemed to decide that she had had enough and slowed back down to a walk (or maybe it was that I was just a hopeless rider?) After around 4 hours of riding we arrived at a clearing where the guys from the ranch had set up a barbecue and bonfire (being spring here, the wind blowing in from the Pacific made it pretty cold. We feasted on good Chilean wine and the most delicious pork ribs and steak cooked over an ...

... down to the bar that Karen and Paul left their camera to see what was the story as i couldn´t understand the floor girl yesterday. From what Alberto told me the three staff we talked to all had three different stories- 1. The Irish couple came back that night for the camera, 2. The irish couple came back the following afternoon for the camera, 3. There was no camera! - Obviously the lot of them are lying sons of bi*&amp;h·s and one of them has pocketed the ...

... they inspected our baggage for drugs, weapons and food. <br><br>It was a bit like entering Oz or NZ, but a LOT more **********. It looked like the officials were all going through the motions, but they didn't really care whether they pulled out a comb or a Kalashnikov ;) <br><br>They sent a token sniffer dog over half the hand luggage from each bus, but couldn't be ***** to have him sniff the rest of ...