The biggest beach in the world!.. nice bathing cap

Trip Start Jul 09, 2008
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Well this weekend we went up to La Serena with Ivan and Carmen. What a great weekend. We stopped at a little town on the way up for some lunch and a bit of look at the local handicraft. Over lunch I told Carmen about our little mishap with the pronunciation of pisco sour (see previous entry). So I was saying quite loudly that I'd been calling it a PICO sour. We were all having a giggle at which time she said "in English that would be like saying COCK sour". Hahaha. I guess her saying that out loud  is as meaningless to her as me saying pico.

Then we headed up to La Serena. Ivan has a friend who has an apartment there. It's this huge complex with the biggest pool in the world. It's all salt water from the ocean that comes in at one end and is cleaned and then flows down the couple of kilometers to go out the other end back into the ocean. In the middle they have a little louvre like glass pyramid with a heated pool and a couple of outside Jacuzzis. All filled with the sea water.

We headed out to the Jacuzzi for an evening of drinking under the stars while sitting in hot water. When we got there we discovered that we had to wear a bathing cap. Yes, a bathing cap. I haven't worn one of them since I was in school! But anyway, at least everyone had  to look ridiculous so we weren't alone.

I know it's weird, but there's something very soothing about looking up in the sky and seeing the Southern Cross again. Feels like home.
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