HOLA! Here I go again....another attempt at blogging... VALPARAISO (CHILE) I´m now in Valparaiso. The postcards don´t really paint a true picture of this place. I expected a small quaint fishing village with houses perched on the hills close to the sea, but instead I was surprised by the sprawled out city-like environment ... busy with traffic, huge vegie market along a main road, commercial buildings along the coast...as I arrived by bus this evening from Santiago. So tomorrow I shall venture out into this city-like town and ride one of their funiculars to one of their cerros/hills. Seafood would definitely be on the menu ...again. Hopefully I would not fall into a tourist trap like I did today at the Central Market in Santiago. I should have steered clear away from the neon lights, red
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