We arrived in Santiago, Chile on Monday morning. By the time we cleared immigration and customs, waited for our luggage for over an hour in the baggage claim and then found Inez who was picking us up it was early afternoon when we left the airport.  Inez is an employee of Florus, the owner of the apartment we are staying in at the moment. Inez’s driving is scary! From doing 30-40km/hr on the highway (while everyone else was doing 80-100km/hr), changing lanes without checking (mirrors and shoulder checks, what are those?), and a number of near misses with other cars we wondered if after flying all this way we would make it to the apartment in one piece! But we did. And when we arrived, Florus was here to greet us in person and show us the apartment. It’s a nice apartment, in a great location, close to all the action.

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