Hola Chile

The poor Chileans are probably completely confused at my mixture of french, spanish and italian coming out to them but so far I´m pleased with my progress.

Chile --- sooooo different from New Zealand. Santiago is pretty and reminds me somewhat of Cuba apart from its a lot more affluent. It is also sooo hot here and smoggy. I will never complain about London again. Apparently the Andes range is directly behind Santiago apart from you´d never know as you can´t see them through the brown air that hovers over Santiago.

NZ is so quiet, the children are well behaved and everything is more like a retirement in pace compared to the fast paced, shrieking, laughing, musical Chile. Bizarrely tourist information places are closed here at weekends so I´m winging it until monday.

I´m currently in an internet cafe at the base of an old convent in the center of Santiago but I´m unsure if its a legit cafe : whilst the outside speaks of internet access, photocopying, copying to CD´s etc., the inside looks like a internet brothel with ´private cubicles for privacy´. I´m not sure if blogging and legit mails on hotmail are ´hot´ enough for them!