smiles and tears... last day!!

hey all!!

well its my last day and I am leaving the hostel for the airport in two hours!! quite tired!!

on friday we went out for the last supper (official) to a lovely grill place. Tamara and I shared a huge bowl of meat cooked to perfection. We had quite a few laughs there and then went on to a street in our guidebooks which was full of clubs and pubs. We started in a Lousiana styled pub with kareoke and ended up in a grotty club, unknowingly it was a dive and we could have done better if we had known!! Danced til 4 and then got taxi back to hotel. Slept in til 12... it was great not having to get up for anything!!!

In the afternoon I moved to my hostel- Rio Amazonas which is a 25-30 min walk away! It is nice, I have my own room with en-suite which is pure luxury!! Just went wandering around Santiago and up the Santa Lucia hill which was very pretty and had good views of the city.

Met the guys for dinner later, went back to the same street as last time for diner and out after. This time I couldnt last and went home early (12) for some sleep. Yesterday I started packing, and then met the guys to go to the Concha y Toro wineyard. It was interesting, not much wine tasting, we had two glasses.. one white and one red, the white was nicer. They didnt actually have the vineyards or processing plant there, but we did see the cellars and barrels all stacked up. We also learned the legend of the Castillo del Diablo- the devils cellar.

We stayed in the wine bar there for awhile before realising we would be late for dinner.. it would take an hour and a half to get back with taxis and metro!! Made it 30mins late but it was ok, the new people were out with Pedro and Wes. Us core six (Tams, Lisa, Mary, Matt, Qamar and me) went out after and stayed out dancing til 4 again. Got back to the hotel about 5, and I ended up staying there to be able to say goodbye to everyone at 7 when we were leaving!! managed to get an hour sleep half on half off the bed with 4 others, and then we managed to wake up at 10 past 7- mad dash to get everyone and their bags down to the truck!!

Said goodbye and a few tears were shed, and now I'm back at the hostel. Luckily all packed!!!

be home soon!!
Orla
xx

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