Made it...

to Santiago - phew. Great flight - straight over all the glaciers that we missed due to the snow in London, brilliant views but internet a bit dodgy here so no pictures - sorry about that.

Apparently we also flew over an earthquake, just heard about it on the news. It seems to have struck about 6 - 7 hours south of Santiago and we're going further north on Tuesday morning!

Arrived in Santiago at about 3pm and then had nightmare taxi journey - speed signs said 80km/h  and we were doing 140 in a tunnel under a park. (like Need For Speed - Underground) - I think if Martyn knew the Spanish for 'please slow down before we die' he might have used it!

 

We have apparently scored a blinder and do appear to be in a 5* hotel for the next two nights. We were looked at a bit oddly as we walked in with our packs - didn't really fit in with the Gucci dahlings. We were also a bit thrown by being asked to sit down whilst we checked in but I think we covered ourselves as we resisted the free sweetie from the dish!

Have just been and found dinner which was interesting a) because its Sunday and all is closed and b) because its only 6pm and Chile doesn't really wake up fo another 2 hrs but we were starving as the chocolate biscuit on the plane didn't fill us up. Martyn decided his cold required protein and so went for steak egg and chips but then realised he needed some vitamins so topped it off with a passion fruit juice. I went a bit more local and had corn pie with chicken which is apparently a summer snack although i think it was more like a large winter comfort food meal. Oh and I had a Cherimoya juice, which is custard apple which was actually quite nice although I seem to remember I don't like the fruit but the juice was okay. Interestingly I was encouraged to put sugar on my pie. Kind of sweet and savoury. Weird but okay.

Walking tour of Santiago all planned out for tomorrow.