Mood:
a-okWow. 
Fourteen (incredibly long) hours over the Atlantic and I arrived in Santiago just after seven am local time this morning. The people are so friendly (or perhaps I´m just out of London?) The keyboards are, however, annoying me; all the punctuation is in the wrong place, and although I can see it, I can't get to the 'at' key.
I had lunch at a lovely sea-food restaurant near my hotel in the district of Vitacura about five miles east of the city centre. Then headed to Parque Metropolitano (apparently the largest city park in the Americas). The map I'm using doesn't really differentiate between motorways and roads that pedestrians can actually walk along, but I survived and eventually got to the centre.
Santiago is snuggled between the Andes and the Coastal mountains, and as you can imagine the views are spectacular. I have two more days here in seven weeks time on my way back from the Falklands, and now have a pretty good idea of what I want to see. Meanwhile, bedtime, as it's a four am start, for a six am flight. More from the Islas Malvinas!
