- Pisco Sours - Pisco is the national alcoholic drink, like brandy. Pisco Sours are made with pisco, sugar, lemon juice and, occasionally, egg white. We like. A lot.
- Sea food (we've covered this before!)
- Breakfast - unlike their Argentine cousins, the Chileans understand the concept of food before 11am that isn't coated in vast amounts of sugar
- Scenery. Kara read a quote that said "When God made the world, he had a little bit of everything left over - glaciers, mountains, deserts, lakes, coast line. He put it in his pocket and went for a walk but there was a hole in his pocket and as he walked it all leaked out onto the land that is now Chile."
- Sleepy towns and villages.
- the local Spanish. Very frustrating for anyone trying to learn or satisfying if you've just begun to learn, as all foreigners are in the same boat - no-on understands what their saying.
- The weather forecast. Everynight, they forecast the weather for Chilean Antarctica. Cold. Windy. Snowing. Never changes. Cracks us up everytime.
- Their dislike of Argentina. Very very funny. We met travellers yesterday who were thinking of skipping Argentina as some Chileans they'd met had told them it was a land of robbers, rubbish, and not much else...(and don't get them started on Maradona).
Other observations
We've decided the Chileans are a lot like the English. Generally, they are not over-whelmingly helpful or friendly on first acquaintance. There are some friendly ones, but it's like the UK, you don't expect it everywhere. However, like the English, they get warmer with more time.
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