Trekking in Torres Del Paine I´m on a bus heading to Chile with a throbbing head and a throbbing thumb. They hand out customs forms asking us to declare any organic matter, eggs, vegetables, meat, grains etc as apparently it is illegal to bring food from Argentina. Yes actually i do have some... like a whole backpack full which i spent my hungover day buying ready for my 5 day trek. I briefly consider lying, then bribery, then tick the right boxes and resign myself to the possible loss of my food supplies and the embarrasment of slowing everybody down as they have to open my pack and remove it all, eggs, vegetables actually everything on the list. At customs i hand the guy my form, he looks at it - then at me with a
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