Well, after a snooze this afternoon we felt rejuvenated and went for a 2 hour stroll around the city this evening. The temperature was 32 degrees at 7 pm. We walked around the Natioanl Palace where President Allende was deposed in 1973, and then on to the National Library down Bernard O´Higgens Avenue - he saved Chile from something once.......
We had a high quality dinner at McDonalds because we don´t speak a word of Spanish - but pointing and using ones fingers to indicate how many seemed to work.
There were tens of thousands out doing Christmas shopping on Sunday evening. Liz stopped one dude from trying to steal John's handkerchief!! There was a major band exhibition on with at least a 1000 guys dressed up like fireman in their fancy helmets in every imaginable dress uniform - presumably all miltary types.
The city is a bit tired, with many buildings reminding us of Bucharest in Romania. The people are somewhat short.......Liz says not a lot of eye candy for either one of us. Surprisingly there don't appear to be many European tourists either.
Tomorrow is the longest day so we'll be up early, and because of the heat probably retreating to somewhere cool during the middle of the day.
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