Hola Amigoes

Three landings completed, 18 to go!!

The eagle landed at about 1.00pm Santaigo time (3 am Sunday in Brisbane). The flight was fairly uneventful if not tediuos with only a few minutes in Sydney and an hour or so in Auckland. Even so the departure from NZ was 8 hours after we left Brisbane, (Boy am I going to have fun with Spanish spell check, it shows every word as an error!).

Lan is definately not Qantas in terms of service, with the food fairly basic, but edible and the movies not flash, we saw the middle but not the beginning of Oceans 13 between Sydney and NZ and then missed the start again on the third leg. Got the gist though. Both managed to get a fair sleep so although we arrived a bit jaded not too jet lagged.

On arrival found the transer to the hotel (thanks Michael) and recieved updated Spanish lessons from the very nice driver. Un packed and went for a walk in the area around the hotel, a commercial and resturant area.

Decided to get adventourous and tried the metro and went to ¨down town¨, luckily we were helped by a couple of friendly locals in both spanish and in english.

Visited the Santa Lucia park and look out and decided that Saturday is ¨love¨ and ¨dog¨day in Santiago, young couples cuddling everywhere and dogs just lying around (not a leash in sight). Tried to suggest to Michele that the former might be contageous and that we did´nt have a vaccanation for it?

No buskers which surprised us, however Michele endevoured to fix that by havind a major fall walking alond the footpath. Not too good after it and may have damaged a pinkie. As I write this she is asleep upstairs with ice on the finger. May need xrays!!

Off to din dins in a mo.

Hasta Luego

G and M