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We arrived into Santiago early
evening to the cold and rain, which isn’t the best way to enter
a new city. Fleece’s and waterproofs for a couple of days
needed. (Bring back that RIO sun)!! With the country being so
long and Santiago as good as in the middle we needed to plan our
time well to see and do as much as possible with the time we had
here.
Next day we hit the local
tourist office. They were great, more than just leaflet people
they could book the trips as well. Armed with a pile of
leaflets we wondered around to get a drink where we saw a
welcoming sight. “Starbucks” It had to be done! A couple of
comforting latte’s.
Well while we were there a guy
heard us talking English and came over. To cut the story short;
If we had been staying for a longer time in Chile he had a
business teaching English to local businesses and was always
looking for English workers. So our couple of weeks with all
our sight seeing wasn’t what he needed!
So back to the tourist office
to book our total time in Chile. Flights, accommodation, ferry,
transfers and snowboarding etc… We spent a couple of hours in
there putting together a package to maximise the time in Chile.
My poor debit card for the trip was taking a hammering so good
’ole Barclays decided to stop it, thinking it had been stolen
after to much use in one day. So a quick call to them and a few
choice words later all was ok.
The next day we started our
wine tasting tours with a trip in the afternoon to 3 wineries
before all our other planned trips. Known for its red wine in
Chile we tasted many good ones from this New world wine region.
We were glad to leave our
hostel in Santiago as it was cold and noisy, full of a group of
young Israelis who seemed to live a nocturnal life, cooking
dinner at 4am when they got in from clubbing…not good when your
room is opposite the kitchen! So we flew out the next day to
Calama, San Pedro in the north of Chile. See the link for more
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