#101 - Zoo time

13/05/2011

I started this morning still on the same bus as yesterday.
The highlight, and there weren't many events to pick from, was a woman coming on to sell fresh pastry things made with Dulce de Leche, a really sweet caramelly sugary paste. They were absolutely scrumptious, and I won't say how many I had.

We FINALLY arrived in Santiago at 1pm, by which stage I had read loads of my book and was very much ready to see some fresh air and get off the damn bus.
I got off and straight away booked my bus to Temuco, where my dad has a friend who I will be seeing. It was scheduled to leave at 9:30pm which gave me around eight hours to kill in a new city in clothes I'd been in for twenty-four hours without washing.

So I started by getting some lunch at McDonalds, I'm slightly ashamed to say. It was nice though, I'm also ashamed to say.
After that, I went to an internet cafe to do some stuff and chat to people. I've started making arrangements for social gatherings that are gonna be happening in my first week back. After that, I went to cafe and read my book for three hours. It's 'Absolute Power' by David Baldacci and is brilliant.

It was finally time for my bus, so on I got and sat down. For a few minutes I thought I would be lucky enough to have the seat next to me free but then a very large man came up and sat next to me.
Great.

As it transpired, he both breathed heavily and snored which was great. The bus was like a zoo - at one stage, there was noise coming from:

The big guy next to me snoring
An old guy across from me snoring with the most ridiculous sound you could imagine
A Spanish-dubbed 'We Were Soldiers' on the tv
A little kid behind me crying, and kicking my chair for good measure.

I didn't get the best night's sleep.

JG