Sleepless'er in Santiago

Santiago - jetlag city. Both Dorthe and I have got it really bad - not surprising since we've only been here two days, and it is an eight hour time difference from NZ. Still, waking up at 2am and going "I'm AWAKE" is a touch annoying, so I thought I'd try and pass the time by scribbling something here. Yesterday was spent just cruising around Santiago, looking around some of the little neighbourhoods, before having dinner with Andrea Caiozzi (who we know from Berkeley) and her fiancee (yup, she's engaged to a nice Chilean man who works at the Santiago zoo with her) - it was nice to see her again, and will spend a bit more time with her over the next few days.

Random cultural observation of the day: Kissing in the streets and parks. It seems to be quite the norm here to sneak off into the park for a little kiss. Ok, maybe that should be a full-on face-suck. After NZ, where NOBODY is even seen holding hands in public, Dorthe and I have found it quite funny. Walking back past one of the big parks tonight, there were probably a dozen benches in a row in one place, and every-one of them had a couple on it, snogging away without a care who saw them...