Woke up really late today, around 13.30 or so, not too many of us were actually awake yet and the ones that were seemed a little in a daze, everybody was starting to surface considering some most didn't get back to the hostel till 5 or so and some stayed awake in the basement drinking some more. I went to sleep, I knew how tired I was and needed to get some shut eye.
Two of the girls were leaving tonight, Maka and Jo, as they weren't going till tonight it meant they had the whole day to do whatever, they decided to go to Niebla, as I had already been acouple of days ago I said no. Everybody took so long getting ready that by the time I was sorted myself, they hadn't even gotten ready yet, I was easily talked into going. Pretty much everybody from last night went, including Sophia as it was her day off.
The girls had got everyone really excited about this restaurant that sold 12 empañadas, queso, cheese or marisco which is seafood for $2000 pesos, sounded quite good plus they were all freshly made there and then, pastry, filling and all. I asked what went into the marisco empeñadas and it took about 10 minutes to clarify an answer, finally we came to an agreement that it was oysters. Oysters back in England are considered delicacies for the upper and middle classes and no working class would dream of buying them, unless for Valentines as an aphrodisiac. In Chile the empañadas are peasant food, the seafood one being the second cheapest after cheese but tasted rather amazing. When they came out piping hot, they were served with a Chilean salsa which was basically chopped tomatoes, chopped onions, a very small amount of chilli and chopped corriander. When you bit into the corner of the empañada and poured in some of this salsa it gave it more bite and zing and made it a lot more refreshing on a hot sunny day overlooking the beach at Niebla with an ice cold Kunstmann as accompaniment.