Santiago

Well, spent Halloween in Santiago is was definitely a different experience to Halloween in Belfast, no fancy costumes aka no girls dressed up in the shortest nurses outfit they can find!! Instead we had our own fancy dress, in bikinis. The pool party was awesome!! I was in Santiago for a long weekend at the end of October until 2nd November, wasn’t quite how I expected to be honest, was probably about the same size as Belfast, taking advantage of being a tourist I took the “Touristik” bus. Got to see everything in Santiago, which wasn’t really that much mainly buildings and statues although I did enjoy San Christabol hill, with the statue of the virgin. Valentina and I (a friend from Santiago) took the teleferica which went really really high up to the hill through the most beautiful park ever. Met some Mexicans there and we had a wee converse about Ireland, as you do!!

The best thing about Santiago was definitely the Mall (de las condes) it was like a city its self, it was huge with a boulevard and a live jazz band on all day and night, the restaurants where delicious…..Que rico!!!! Tasted my first Peruvian meal also in a gorge restaurant, food was very spicy but great and of course with it came a Pisco…que asco!!!!really not getting use to the drink at all!! It was so funny walking through the supermarket in Santiago and hearing ”you can call me Al” upper sixths song!!! It made me smile J Santiago was a successful trip, a lot of shopping, what I enjoyed the most was the main Plaza, it was beautiful and the buildings where impressive!!!! Loved the reggaetone band playing in the market and all the paintings also!!