Chile Part 1

So... first post of my trip around the world and what would you know I´m in Santiago, Chile on the 3rd full day of my trip around the world... You may ask what have I been doing for the past 3 days.. Well I have walked so much these couple days I have probably done more walking than an entire year in NZ, but as most of you who read this know I don´t tend to walk anywhere in Auckland.. I have seen the main Plaza where the government buildings are they´re amazing are in similar style I think to the ones I saw in europe and the markets here are similar to the ones found in asia. They´re fill with everything you can imagine from food to clothing to bleders. Speaking of blenders did you know that there´s an entire street in Santiago decicated to just the sale and repair of blenders it´s amazing. theres just shop after shop filled with blenders. They must really love their blending here :-) OK on to the food and experiences of travelling alone.. On the 2 day I got into Chile I met a really nice girl from Australia she´d been here for a while so she took me around the town showing me the sites and informing me what I should do about travelling safe and everything it´s quite nice to meet people like that when you´re one of those people that hasn´t travelled to many places around the world that is quite in similarity to Santiago and well most of South America. Anyways we went to the top of a monument in the centre of town with allowed you to look over the city.. Seriously I couldn´t see much of the city at all, the visibility was maybe 3km, the smog was so bad.. But you could see all the building aroudn the city which is quite siilar to Auckland I guess. There´s old buildings and new buildings the funny thing is that some of them are half old and half new.. Enough about buildings and sights lets talk about the food as most of you know içm quite a fan of food. The first experience of chilian food was in a little restrant in the bank district. Walked in and the place was rally flash or anything similar to a diner in the states I guess. The waiter is dressed in a tux, i couldnçt believe it the waiter in a diner is dressed in a tux.. now that is class. anyway i ordered a pico sour not knowing what it is apart from that itçs a chilian speciality. this is one of the most amazing drinks you will ever try itçs alcoholic but itçs sour as well itçs amazing, i wouls say that the pisco sour is second only to its cholocately cousin which i donçt rememebr the name of (i´ll find the name of it tomorrow and tell you all), so we ordered our meals she had pork and i had pollo which is chicken. The chicken wasnçt great but it was alright jono you would like the chicken here itçs breast and all breast, me i like the most saucy bits of a chicken usually what europeans donçt like. Anyways if you have a meal here theres always bread included and salsa my god the salsa here is amazing itçs so much better than the stuff you get at home which is just tomato and that it mostly. Here itçs full of herbs and sauce that you can dip your bread into itçs so amazing and to top it all of itçs just spicy enough to give you a kick but it wouldnçt slap you to the floor like the stuff at the mexican cafe. Just devine is what I would say about it. After we finish and went to get the bill the waiter took our plates and came back with a drink which was very unusual he gave us a desert wine of some sort which is wonderful it was similar to an ice wine ummm...... so yum... We jsut couldnçt believe our luck in finding this place amazing first meal in Chile and itçs hard not to fall in love with a city like this when the people are so friendly. The most amazing thing was the price, man it was cheap it was way too cheap for what we had it was 8450 paseos which is maybe 15 dollars for the entire meal including drinks. That was the first day, but that night i got shit faced, it was fun but the hangover was horrible and i distinctly remember the guy who ran the hostel teaching me to say i have a pink dick in spanish so i donçt think the alcohol helped in this sense. But today is a new day and Içm going to find myself some breakfast and then off to the bus station to change my ticket as I bought a ticket to the middle of no-where not knowing that thereçs no where to stay and nothing to do. So going to try and get to pucon by tomorrow morning to see the mountains trying to make my way down to Ushaia. Shoudl be interesting wish me lcuk and i willt ry to keep you informed about what is happening. And sorry about this Alex Içve just basically written another book..