We arrived safely today only to pay a reciprocity fee of $117(US) for staying here 3 days. Seems fair, the Albanians, Canadians and Mexicans have to pay it too (although it’s significantly cheaper for them, and the Albanians?! What the??)

The first thing I’ve learnt is that the one word I know in Spanish ‘una manzana’, an apple, is not very helpful!! And bizarrely all the French I learnt has come rushing back to me so in an incredibly unhelpful move by my brain I am now trying to speak a mix of French and English to someone who understands neither! I’m going to have to dedicate some time to learning a bit more Spanish and get a phrase book!!

We’re pretty jet lagged as it’s been about 27 hours since we left Adelaide and we’ve had limited sleep since then. We did take a nice afternoon nap, wake up for dinner and now I think we’ll go back to bed!!!

It’s been a bit of a culture shock too, not necessarily in a bad way just in a ‘how much does $4700 pesos equal, why is there scones and a tomato salas served with every meal, why is the ATM charging me $9 every time I withdraw, I miss googling everything’ kind of way. But we will get used to it. And also I already hate my back pack. Ugh maybe I am the princess I thought I wasn’t. Oh well, I’m sure I will work out a system soon.

Anyway, I’ll do a Santiago post after the next few days and then we are off over the Andes (I’ve always wanted to climb over Andy! Soy-ah!!!!) and we’re I to Argentina!!

Someone make sure mum reads this so she knows we’re ok!!

xx

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