View from the top of Santa Lucia
After catching three planes, crossing three timezones and enduring roughly twenty hours flying I arrived in Santiago Chile, and glad for it I was lucky enough to be sat next to a big fat old man who spent the whole flight with his hand in his pocket playing with something, god knows what, I just wanted to stab him but I could´t damn airport security took away my tweezers and my pair of scissors, I thought about making a shank out of the plastic knives they give you with the food, but figured it would be best not to it´s kinda hard to get away when you´re stuck on a plane a few thousand feet in the air.
So anyway I arrived in Santiago and got a shuttle to to the hostel La Casa Roja checked in and slept for about 23 hours when I finally woke up I was on need of food and in my haste to leave didn´t bother to check the map and got lost, but the worst part was nothing was open turns out things start happening at about 10 o´clock and it was only eight, which is kinda how I got lost wandering around looking for food.
The next couple of days were spent walking the streets looking at what Santiago has to offer it´s a hell of a big city so I did a lot of wandering, more fun was to be had at the hostel not being a fan of cities it wasn´t really my cup of tea, I made a couple of friends but no one I really clicked with in fact I ended up drinking with the staff more than the other guests, I probably could of got a job there but wanted to keep moving as I said cities are not really for me.
So move I did I´ve just arrived in a place called Valparaiso it looks pretty cool so far but I´ve heard it can be dangerous so it´s a bit shit that I´ve just turned up in my hostel and there is no one else here, except the family who live upstairs, I just hope they´re not cannibals I´ve seen horror movies that start this way I´m half way to think I should kill them now that way I´m safe although it would be hard trying to convince the police that it was self defence, if this is the last post I write you´ll know it was them that killed me check the freezer I might still be in there, if I survive the night I´m going to find somewhere else to stay..
About half an hour after writing that two blokes turned up one Kiwi by the name of Steve and a Pomme Phil, Having feared for my life once already that day I thought it best to make friends quickly which turned out to be a good idea, I’ve benn haging out with them for the last week or so now and it looks like we’ll be heading up the line together aswell.
Valparaiso is quite a beautiful place very old buildings and a lot of history about the place, that mixed with some fairly decent grafiti made for an interesting walk around, we were there for two nights and the Friday was Holloween so we hit a Raggaton DiscoTech what a fuking laugh never heared such crap music in all my life, we were the only gringo’s there and drew a fair bit of attention from the laddies who might I add are absoultely stunning, I met a nice youg girl by the name of Daniela who kept me ocupied and away from any trouble that I probably would have gotten into..
Next stop was Vina Del Mar supposedly a great beach I say average at best not much to report on that place went to a cool bar had a few drinks wandered around a bit then headed back to Santiago back to the La Casa Roja a fine place by all acounts we’ve sort of got our own wee group that keeps changing as people come and go, a couple of Irish a canadian a pomme two Kiwi’s and whoever else decides to sit down, most the days are spent poolside drinking beer which has now taken it’s toll a crap diet too much booze and cigarettes and fuck all sleep make for a really unhealthy boy..
Santiago in a nutshell is a huge city with a lot of money and not too much in the way of poverty from what I saw anyway, the kids are all in love and spend the whole day sitting in the park kissing, the older ones go to a bar and kiss or to a resturant and kiss all they do is kiss no matter where they are or who is watching. Santiago is well over in the number of stray dogs a city should have there thousands of these muts walking around, the people of Santiago on a whole seem pretty nice with the exception of the three that robbed my mate george at knife point yesterday…
