In the morning we went through Taltal and went to the town museum.\u00a0 The place was very informative and had a good collection of pieces from the time when the town was the Northern port of Chile.\u00a0 There were also other pieces like skulls and old, Chilean pottery.\u00a0 I\u00b4m always conscious that I sound amazingly dumb when I write about things like this.\u00a0 I feel like I should be able to tell you the history, dates and things rather than, “it was old and interesting” but I guess that history\u00b4s not really my forte, anyway that\u00b4s the kind of thing that Google was invented for n\u00b4est pas\u00bf\u00a0 Yay, check the upside down question mark.\u00a0 It\u00b4s actually surprisingly hard to type on foreign keyboards as the keys do straaaange things.\u00a0 I still haven\u00b4t found the at sign so every time I access my email I have to Google “at sign” and then copy and paste it.\u00a0 Okay, that\u00b4s probably sounding slightly stupid as well.\u00a0 I think I\u00b4d better move on before I make myself sound even more ignorant…..\u00a0 So where was I….oh yes the museum in Taltal, oh no I\u00b4d done that bit……\u00a0 So, after a wander round town I went and used the internet and Mum and Dad headed back to the hosteleria to read and the like.\u00a0 After I\u00b4d checked a few emails (yes using copy and paste functions for at signs!) Dad arrived and said we had to leave.\u00a0 I wondered if Mum and Dad had managed to drop a Chilean faux pas but it turned out to be far less exciting in that the hotel\u00a0had double booked.\u00a0 Well, at least, that was their story.\u00a0 Mum had asked for another night the previous day and I had also gone with her in the morning and they said it was fine.\u00a0 It all stank a bit to be fair and marred our, previously very good, opinion of the place.\u00a0 Mum reckoned that they probably had someone on business who wanted the room for some time who would be repeat business, which we wouldn\u00b4t, well definitely not now anyway after that shenanigans, but it was all still a bit mean!<\/p>\n
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With a slightly sour taste in our mouths we decided we had seen enough of Taltal and headed South to Bathai Inglesia.\u00a0 A slight disappointment turned in our favour, as it had so many times previously on our trip, and we discovered the most lovely cabana stroke condimimium.\u00a0 The reason I wrote stroke there by the way was not one of those affected type things, like when people say, “and I quote”, and do that annoying thing with their fingers, but as I have no idea where the slash key is on this keyboard.\u00a0 Anyway, that\u00b4s another digression, I think this needs to be the last entry for now…..so we checked in to the place and lounged by the pool.\u00a0 We were the only people there and the pool was right next to our place.\u00a0 In the evening we headed into the nearby town and got takeaway pizza and I bought a couple of very cheap caps, including a sun visor which, it has since transpired, makes me\u00a0 look rather worryingly like the female version of Eminem.\u00a0 I just need to practice my “East side” signs and I\u00b4ll be the full ticket, or something.\u00a0 So, anyway, we took the food back, ate the pizza, drank wine and relaxed in our rather nice, pool-side abode!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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