Hi everyone. Just a quick note to let you know we´ve crossed the Pacific successfully.
By the time midnight arrives March 13th will have lasted 40 hours, but I´ve got a feeling we´re not going to last that long - it´s 8.30pm now and we´re pretty much on our last legs!
The flight over was good and we managed to get a couple of hours sleep. We watched two movies on the plane - Enchanted and The Martian Child - both were good but the details are a bit blurry in my mind now!
From first impressions Santiago seem like a cool place. There are lots of wide open plazas and impressive churches, and thousands of Chileans happily promenading back and forth. It feels quite European, except without the tourists - we barely came across any on our wanders. June has been brushing up on her Spanish and is doing very well, including asking for some ice when I fell off a curb and twisted my ankle! How come I can jump out of a plane OK, but find it difficult to cross the road?!
We´re heading to the tourist office tomorrow to get some ideas about how to plan our trip. The problem with Chile is that it´s so long and thin, so if we want to see both ends there´ll be a lot of doubling back on ourselves, and the distances are pretty enormous. We´ve been so busy in NZ that we haven´t had a chance to plan anything for this leg of the journey, but judging by the way we´re feeling now we may take a more relaxed approach to the next 2 months, and move at a leisurely Latin pace.
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