Friday

After Portillo I spent some more time back at Che Legarto hostel in Santiago. Last Friday was a fun day. It started unlikely enough at the post-office. The queue at the postoffice was full of business types ready to send there letters and documents, whilst I chilled out in the queue in my flipflops carrying an enormous snowboard bag. Would you believe it, I kept getting strange looks. So I bid a sad farewell to my snowboard, after 2 and half months carrying it around countless bus stations and hostels to 6 different ski resorts in south america but the snow was melting and its time to move on and do some travelling.

On my way back from the hostel I chanced by some Traditional dancing in the plaza and who
should be there, but La Presidente de Chile, joining in the dancing. Shes so famous, she has her own web page here http://www.presidencia.cl/view/homepage.asp

To finish the day, we went to see an American band, some friends in the hostel had met on the plane from BA,´the Ataris´. Before the show we went backstage with the band. Whilst the band manager tried in vein to chat up the girls from the hostel, myself and Shane observed that the bands rider was not Champagne, Cocaine and M&Ms (with all the brown ones removed) but infact Gatorade and some bananas. The band let some more fans backstage, and a young Chilean came over to us and told us how great we were for coming over to play some gigs in South America. We blagged being in the band for some time, despite not having a clue who they were - not sure what the kid thought when he saw us in the crowd rather than onstage later. The gig went great and made a nice change from Regaeton and Shakira (so if you want some new tunes - crawf, mike, janine, etc check http://www.myspace.com/theataris )

..Us, with Tom from the Ataris

the Ataris rockin....

...Pepe at the Che.