Well here goes the first post of the trip. Had a couple of days in Chile which was pretty OK except for the fact that they take weekends pretty seriously by doing absolutely nothing. Especially on Sundays. Oh yeah and no one speaks any English here!

Thankfully the restaurants were open and I had one of the best steaks ever. It was grilled and salt rubbed or something but dang it was good. Probably as good as anything Argentina has to offer. With all the trimmings, it would´ve cost close to $40 Aussie. I´m told Argentina is M U C H cheaper. She who must be obeyed says Chile is a bit expensive but I was only there for two days!

Sadly not much else to do but get pissed - which I did - whilst finding out the hard way that every drink is a double in Chile, and well most of South America. So remember, go easy tiger! Four drinks is enough to get shit faced here! Oh yeah and you get a litre of beer per cup (you can get smaller but that´s what most people drink) and a jug is something like 2.7 litres! But there´s some gret night life if you´re not legless by sun down!
I was staying at the La Chimba hostel, which is in a really bohemian, multi-cultural part of town, a fair whack out of Santiago proper. It was like a Chapel St kind of vibe and really went off on a Saturday night. In the morning the zoo is close by and you can catch a chair lift over it, right to the top of this mountain, which has a huge monument of Virgin Mary or someone, kind of like the Jesus one in Brazil. Just don´t get there too early, because nothing will be open before 9am (blame it on the jet lag)