David Coats » people http://davidcoats.co.uk Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:17:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sunny Santiago http://davidcoats.co.uk/sunny-santiago/2009/12/17/ http://davidcoats.co.uk/sunny-santiago/2009/12/17/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:18:04 +0000 David http://davidcoats.co.uk/?p=1291 I’ve been in Sunny Santiago, Chile now for 5 days after only intending to stay for two. It’s just sooo good here! Before I left Bolivia on 12th I booked a hostel through Hostelbookers called Ventana Sur. When I arrived after a long plane journey from La Paz, via a desert airport called Iquique, there was an eery silence on every street. I put it down to the standard south American Sunday – where generally nothing is open bar a handful of internet cafes. However today not even the internet cafes were open. When I arrived at the hostel it turned out that everything was closed because it was election day, and Chileans were busy voting in their first

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Now there are plenty of you who see me as a bit of a train geek,

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