This is a post about some ordinary day to day stuff that is different in Chile….
In Santiago and various other towns that we came through in middle Chile, we often could smell raw sewerage when walking on the streets. It never gets pleasant, but you sort of get used to it. So when we were driving down the Pan-American Highway (Ruta 5) and stopped at one of the luxurious Copec fuel stations, we didn’t give it much thought when we smelled sewerage. We wanted to have lunch on the lush green lawns and picked a spot where the sewerage smell was less potent, no problem! So we are lying in the grass, sandwich in hand, cold Nesquick in reach, sunny and all good, or so we thought… Then one of the fuel station employees came over and told us we couldn’t eat there. At first we didn’t understand, but then he explained that the reason the grass was so lush and green was because they watered it with the sewerage from the public toilets. End of lunch! Now who waters lawns with raw sewerage!?!? Continue reading