We arrived in Santiago, and the South American leg of our trip, from Aukland. When we were passing through imigration in Santiago (ah lads, we're Irish - you can let us through) the immigration official laughed, said something in Spanish and announced the name of our hostel to all the other immigration officials within earshot. They all proceeded to laugh. Eager to please, and enter their country, I laughed and smiled too (and may have waved). A quick google translate later discovered that the hostel was called 'The Rude Princess'...at least they had the dignity to laugh at me....we're not sure what they made of Francis! The flight to Santigo left New Zealand @ 4pm of a Thursday, we flew for 10 hours and landed in Santiago at noon....the same day. Santiago was definately one of
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