The last few days in Santiago we did and saw more things than in the preceding week. On the tuesday we went up Cristobals a big hill in the middle of the city with a statue of the virgin mary on the top. The views were very good and you could tell that nearly six million people call Santiago home a third of the population. To get to the top we travelled by cable car we were greated by serene music and a tranquil atmosphere. Lots of people sitting quietly around m...

After a 12 hour flight we arrived in Santiago four hours before we left on Easter Sunday. Crossing the international date line is a very strange thing. We fared alright on the flight using the little Spanish we knew to order drinks so thought this wasn´t a bad start. We were pretty much whisked to our home stay by taxi so trying to listen to Spanish when you are very tired is pretty hard. Managed to string a sentence together saying we were tired and then went t...