...nothing major happens except we go shopping for some groceries, we book a hotel for the next night to not inconvenience S&V any further and we prepare for the New Years celebrations....we find our hotel is in a nice tower so we get apartments on 15th and 17th floor respectively; great value at €38 but view is not nice....Piotr goes to meet some online friends and I pay a visit to Ale and Javiera, have a nice beer with them, pick up my freeze dried food, ...

....I land in Santiago (30C heat!!) and right off the bat I find out that Piotr (who had landed there a day before me) had been robbed!...I go to Sebastian's place and meet his girlfriend Victoria....Seba arrives and it appears he's even more disorganized than me but Victoria seems to be his organizer, secretary and nanny in one!...together with Piotr and Seba we go shopping for some outdoor gear, we visit a local climbing club for advice from Seba's ...

...I revisit Atlanta and decide that despite never truly having visited it I really like it: 23C, sunny and smiling black airport staff all over (including one mop guy in the bathroom singing blues classics)....I pick up my big bag again (duh!) and after a short wait get my rental car. It works beautifully - I make the payment, go to the parking garage and am told by a smiling clerk to pick any car from row C - the keys are inside(!)...I am faced with one nasty s...

...we have the last great breakfast and arrive quite late at the airport (because I was hoping to find churros - in vain!)...I am pissed off by a local Iberia check in guy who threatens to slap me with excess baggage charges (no such problems in Brussels on the way in) so I stuff a lot of things in my pockets and wear three jackets. It helps....we say goodbye, I go to Madrid, dad flies to Warsaw, and make it to our respective homes and thus ends our beautiful Chr...

...I pack frantically at 5am because the night of my return and I decided to have this year's last beer with Jan, who strangely enough was coming back to Bxl after Xmas on a flight 20 mins after mine so we shared an Uber and a beer. Minor scandal: we Ubered to my work to pick up my car and because I had to many bags, when we reloaded them from the Uber to my car we forgot my backpack leaving it in the middle of the sidewalk and reaally scaring the security g...