27th Of February
Just another day in Coyhaique. During breakfast I had a very long and lively conversation with a Chilean man from Temuco, although as the conversation was in Spanish it wasn't the most advanced; it did however prove how my Spanish has improved by leaps and bounds already. I would never call myself anywhere near fluent, my vocabulary is still a joke, but I am far better then when I left for South America. Sergio is a man in his late 50's, he has traveled throughout Europe (even in Denmark) and is an extraordinarily nice "bloke". He gave me his business card (showing that he is of Swiss decent) and invited me to dinner if I should ever come to Temuco, and both are things I plan to do.
Following (after a lot of walking, asking, looking, going to a tourist information and returning there) I found the bus company that goes to Futaleufú; in reality though it only goes to Villa Santa Lucia where you have to change bus. I went to an internet cafe to burn out my pictures onto DVD and mailed them to my father (3 dvd's).
And here is something extraordinary: For the equivalent of 2€ I bought a huge cone (real cone, not those cardboard ones that seem to be popular) ice cream with 4 big scoops of ice cream, 2 scoops of chocolate and 2 scoops of pistachio (thank you Frida, for teaching me the pleasure of pistachio). So with my huge ice cream in one hand and my camera in the other, I set out for a scenic city walk and snapped some beautiful small town pictures. The internet cafe I am at right now has rather slow computers and slow internet, so I can't upload the pictures just yet. The city itself is very scenically placed next to a calm river up against mountains to two sides, placed on a little hill.
I shopped some food for the bus trip the following day (tuna, ham, bread and chocolate), and went out for dinner the same place as the previous day. This time however I didn't have salmon but a steak with two eggs and chips. Back at my "hotel" I watched American Gun, a really good American movie about gun control.