Santiago

We made it to Chile safe and sound and had an interesting day checking out the tourist sites today. The photo is the hill of St Lucia which is a small volcanic plug close to the centre of town which is a park with some beautiful colonial architecture. We tried out the local speciality of Mote con huesillos which turned out to be soaked wheat in peach syrup, not bad suprisingly.

The spanish is going well when we do the talking but we are having trouble understanding the locals if they say more than a couple of words. On the flight over here with LAN Chile as we approached the Auckland runway for our landing I swear that the pilot made a short announcement on the PA of ¨"...darme la proxima cerveza" which translates to "give me the next beer". I was a little alarmed at what was going on in the cockpit after that!

We´re off to Peru tomorrow morning.