First the bad news....LAN airways sucks and the schedules to crn island are impossible to work around, not to mention the flights are rediculously expensive, as in over a grand US. Also, the flights within Chile are rediculous too, so there shant be fgflying anywhere but home.
The good news. Matty and I went out on a limb and rented a car for two weeks. Got a free upgrade to a beautiful 4 door fiat, oh yeah, I can see the ladies all over this machine already hahaha.
We have logged about 250 km so far and only have abou 5900 mor to go, so we are totally on schedule. We have checked into a little place in a Town called Taclca, which is about Waterloo sized but comepletely surrounded by vinyards. We shall try and do some wine tasting tomorrow, after a long night of wine tasting tonight. Sometimes it takes a couple of bottles to really get the tasting thing down.
Santiago was really great, and it reminds me of most european cities, its big, busy and yet remains beautiful and lively. Had a great time walking around and watching people, as well as cosuing the unnofficial national food, the ïtaliano¨. This is a hotdog smothered, and when I say smothers, I´m talking obscene amounts, with tomatoes, crushed advocado and mayonaise. Matty and I have eaten like 2, and have decided already we need to drastically cut down on the quantity of mayonaise in our diets. It should be a food group here, as I haven´t seen anything served without copious amounts. Anyhow, we could feel our hearts stalling after a couple meals so that is probably a good reason to cut back.
Tommorrow we´ll log a few more miles on the ol´fiat and see a few more things. This is definately a country begging to be driven, with geography thats literally breathtaking every single kilomiter so far, and we have barely started.
Hope everyones doing alright back home! I´m out, like elton, but in the sense of the blog being over, not the other out, for real.
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