Last night we went for a wander round the streets of Santiago and when we were in the main plaza we saw a comedian (of course we didn't know he was a comedian we just saw loads of people standing around) so we wandered over and the comedian saw Will and pulled him into the middle of the circle... he abused him in Spanish for a while (not that we understood a word of it) and Will as you can imagine was highly embarassed and me and Sam thought it was very funny. Then we came back and spent the first night in our new home, it was ok just a bit noisy and there are the original floorboards in the room so the floor creaked every time you moved!
After a decent breakfast this morning we studied English and then went for a walk through Santiago to a hill called Santa Lucia, we climbed to the top of the hill to a lookout which has views across the city, in the background you can just make out the Andes through the smog. Santiago is very hot, much hotter than we thought, we really still don't know much about it's history and I'm still amazed by the difference between Chile and the other countries we have visited, I think a trip to the museum is in order tomorrow.
Sam is very excited as Harry Potter 7 is out today and we will go and watch it when we get to New Zealand, Will is getting a HP crash course so that he can come to the cinema as well.
Picture of Chilean market attached with loads of colourful fruit and veg
Wikipedia has a nice history of Chile if you are interested. I think the Inca met great resistance from the tribes already there when they tried to expand the empire in that direction. Even the Spaniards couldn't quite overcome the resistance when they invaded whereas the Inca in Peru surrendered to them quite meekly. Different land, different peoples.
ReplyDeleteIf you can post a photo of Av. Bernardo O'Higgins - both the avenue itself and the name plate I would be grateful. That would be very cool.
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