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Published: February 18th 2013
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Nets in a hostel!
Nets and sunshine, with a beer.. Believe me, I am sitting in the garden of a hostel in the downtown region of Santiago, drinking a beer beside the pool (can you picture this?) and the other side is a homemade cricket net in which the Chilean side are practising... Yes the sound of bat and ball has followed me here! The owner of the hostel is a cricket mad Ozzie who had space in his garden, what else would he put there! Lovely treat!
The journey here was this year's white knuckle ride over the Andes on the Los Liberatores Pass. It has only just opened again after being destroyed by rain and hail last week. There is only one carriageway in existence, the diggers are working like mad to renew the second, so at the moment it seems to be a one way system. Terrifying! The photos are there in spite of my fear ...
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Ru
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Oh god
Please tell me you simply watched with a beer and a smile rather than trying to join in with some coaching? Road journey looks interesting but at least it doesn't seem like they are the kind of roads you could fall off all that easily. Perhaps the camera dumbs dwn the drops somewhat. Travel safe and leave the cricketers in their overly narrow nets alone!