After last night's excitement, a more sedate day today. No point going into much detail: we caught a couple of buses the 300-and-something miles down to Santiago, we checked into our hostel ‘La Chimba’ - in the late night Bellavista area - and were asked if we had any questions… We had one very important question: is there a good Indian restaurant in Santiago? The answer, thank God (as we had been thinking and talking about a curry for about 6 days now), was ‘yes’, so we headed out to the Majestic Best Western on Santa Domingo. We used to eat a curry about once a week in London but, alas, have only had Seattle’s distinctly average effort on our trip so far. Tonight’s curry was, without exaggeration, absolutely amazing. So our advice to anyone heading
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