Yesterday evening I met two English girls who were also staying in the hostel and ended up being in the same dorm as me. They are two sisters from Bristol, Helen and Jo. One of them speaks very good Spanish and learnt it at university and has been to Santiago before with loads of Spanish friends. The other is similar to me in the fact that she can understand the basics and can talk the bare minimum needed to get by. Helen, the one who speaks Spanish could easily be passed off as being Spanish she speaks it that well. I had an inkling they were English when I walked passed them in the morning whilst they were on the computer, they don't look Spanish, South American or any other country with a foreign tongue, they looked English. My suspicions were confirmed when I was sitting outside on my laptop and they came over and started playing shit head, a very simple card game that never seems to get boring, no matter how often you play it, at that moment they were on 18-13 games playing a best out of 33.