Santiago, Chile

Well in a word, my favourite part of Santiago was ´Italiano´, your average hotdog, only smothered in Guacamole. What more could you want from a measly 50p? The area where we stayed was a student vibe with a couple of Universities nearby. Although there´s not a huge amount to do in Santiago, we managed to amuse ourselves with rambling around the city and taking advantage of one of the clubs in town, aptly named ´Blondie´to our tastes- this place had ´specials´each night. The first night we went, much to my appreciation it was the ´afterparty´for a Kylie gig on that night in Santiago. So it was a Kylie special. Now I assumed this would mean a couple of Kylie hits during the night, but no, it exceeded all of my expectations, playing Kylie´s entire back-catalogue of hits, not only for our audio pleasure, but there were infact, DVDJS, who not only played the hits, but had the videos on big screen for our visual enjoyment. After a great night of camp dancing around to the greatest pop hits, we decided to venture to Blondie again, for a second indulgence. The next night, the special was britpop, focusing primarily on The Smiths and Blur. The entire career of The Smiths and Morrissey played over the screens, I couldn´t help but wish my Dad was there, he would have loved it.

Much of our time in Santiago was spent in our hostel of many amenities. However, we managed to make a trip to the zoo, nothing out of the ordinary but the aviary was something else. The prices weren´t too bad considering what we had been told about Chile. The weather was beautiful and we were glad to have gone, whilst at the same time, anticipating our next leg of the journey.