So... for the pictures... Oh but first, when I said in my last post that I was going for coffee, I mean I drank a coffee in a normal coffee shop... see, here they have these places called 'coffee with legs' where, to improve buisness, coffee shops have drinks served by women in bikinis... very innovative... but I'm a good boy, I was just getting a coffee... sorry, just to set the record straight...
On more drink related issues, on tuesday we went to a gritty local bar where very traditional Chilean people go to drink, these people are called wochakas (excuse the poor spelling), and students also go there... they serve this drink called an earthquake which is a kind of coqtail of wine and spirit with a lump of ice cream... a weird combination... also weird to see old men drinking any thing with ice cream in... needless to say, pints of this kind of thing caused many of our group to get rather worse for wear... not me though... honestly... ;)
On a third drink related subject, yesterday we went for a meal in the local fish market... it very popular and all the food was good except mine... made a monumental mistake and ordered an atrocious squid dish... its just not like Asia... ... then after they gave us a complementary shot of liqure which looked and tasted like Listerine (a mouth wash)... rather comically, when I was having mine a waiter dropped a fork, I jusmped and managed to spill my spirit in my eye... seriously, it was bloody rediculous... the spirit was green and I chucked it in my eye... ... ... only me and Mr Bean are such clutzes... I just wish I had it on video... that 250 pounds from You've Been Framed (a british comedy home video show) would have come in useful...
so here are some pictures:)
... oh yeah people... don't forget... my birthday on the 23rd, on Wednesday... get you messages of congratulation ready:)
Love from Matt:)
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| This is the humble grave of Victor Jara... a good lad and a hero... that's the impression I get |
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| One of the "streets" in the cemetary... these are graves! ... reminds me of a goast town! |
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| St.Patrick's day celebration... note the rockstar looking violin player with the dreds |
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| Plaza de Armas... like a square type thing |
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| Bit of a view of Santiago from a castle on a hill where it seemed all the couples go to kiss |
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| (left to right) Ricardo (hostel staff... good lad:), Paul, and yuri in the gritty bar drinking earthquakes |
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| The extreme fans of Colo Colo during the Santos game with a massive flag which reads something like, "it's hard to be humbel when you're the best":) |
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| Me and James at my first Colo Colo game... look how happy we are... bless! | | | | | |
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