21.06.2019 – The long way to resting in peace

Juris writing:
As we board the plane from Rome to Santiago (~15h), it appears that the plane is either old or planned for shorter flights. The seats are located very close to each other and it is clear that there will be hardly any sleep for me. As I have spent last couple of nights finishing up different tasks back home, the prospect of staying up another 14 hours is not looking good. Still, vino rosso, warm meal and exaustions does its job and I fell asleep.

During the flight, the sleep positions are constantly changed between different shades of uncomfortable.
Towards the second half of the flight I realize that all those movie fantasies about lavatory sex in planes are not about sex at all. It is more of a convenient way to flex muscles after long flight hours. As toilets were significantly larger than seats, I started to play arround a thought to sleep there.

Despite the announcement about “turbulenzas excepcionales” over “Cordilleras los Andes” we land quite peacefully. Chile meets us with one lost and soon found bag and Customs dogs which were very keen on our last sandwich (biešu maize) in Daces bag.

It is early morning and we go to the city to drop our bags in bus station locker, meet Anders and have a walk arround the center. After taking out some local cash we feel quite wealthy- walking arround with couple of hundred thousand Chilean pesos each. Chile does not have small and large money units like Euro and cents, its all just pesos. It takes some time to get used to counting in thousands.

On our walking tour we climb the central cliff in Santa Lucia park, take a look at the National library, some other objects until we reach the market. The old market has become a tourist place with restaurants and we are glad we had our meal in much more authentic local marketplace with all its mess, noise and realities. Some of us top up the dinner with some “churros” in outside stand (thanks, Ilgoni, for suggesting- they were tasty!).

In the evening we take our bags from the locker and go to our apartment on the 14th floor. The flat is quite tight for all of us, but is feels heavenly to have a shower and sleep horizontally. The long day that started halfway across the globe, has ended.

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