A few days ago I arrived in Santiago with an ordinary airplane (A340) from Auckland, earlier than the time I left New Zealand. Actually, I thought time travel feels more rough or would be pretty dangerous - Au contraire ! I left Kiwiland at 16.00 o'clock and landet in Chile at 11.00 o'clock at the exact same day. I feel much younger now. Oh well....but never mind. Santiago is a huge city and the streets are pulsing like veins. It seemed to me like an endless stream of people young and old, some stranded on the sidewalk, rattling with a cup of change. Santiago has all the symptomes of metropol, traffic jams, skyscrapers, shopping malls, fast food, subway, pollution, grafitti, markets, homeless, museums, bars and so on. Maybe the whole city just ran over me like
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