My last night at the hostel wasn't a big one, most of the party people had left, the Swiss guys had just left and everybody was either out or going to bed early. Iulia, whom I misspelled her name before ad Lulia, and her friend came over with some wine and some crisps, myself and Dries had some beers and the Swiss guys had left us a bottle of Absinthe to finish off in their honour. The night was a more quiet affair with just the four of us in the courtyard, no free beer at 22.00 and nobody else about even coming and going, it was just us. I only had a six pack of beer, I had had a few left over during the day and had gone out to buy some more with my dinner but I didn't want to finish it all so I asked politely if I could have some of the girls wine, they let me so I had a coulpe of glasses. The wine was a massive litre bottle or could have even been bigger I can't remember, it wasn't too strong, only 11.5%, it was quite sweet and tasted like a Riesling. It wasn't the greatest wines I have ever had but it was okay for $1500 pesos, not much more than my six pack of beer. We just spent a lot of the time chatting, Iulia taking some random photos, then we hot the Absinthe. When you start drinking Absinthe, especially the 75% stuff then its pretty much a guarantee that you will get very drunk indeed. We all had a shot well, half a shot glass each but the glass was big, it was easily more than a double measure. After the first shots, Dries persuaded us all to have the shots the 'proper way' with the sugar and water. After a while and a couple of shots each we were all quite drunk, the girls left at maybe 1/1.30 and so I had a beer as a night cap, and went to bed. I was awoken by a lot of noise coming from the reception area, I soon fell asleep again, then woke up again as I desperately needed the toilet, I went and noticed that the reception was full of sleeping people and bags, I went to the toilet, then went back to bed and thought nothing of it. When I woke up again in the morning I noticed that the beds that didn't have any people on now were full, it was very bizarre and unexplainable. On closer inspection the beds were filled with the Swiss guys, I wasn't sure if it was still the alcohol playing tricks on me but then on my way out of the room I saw Bruno, one of the Swiss guys and he explained it all, they went to the bus station to get there bus to Caldera up north but one of them had their bag stolen. They had been at the police station and reported it and everything but it had taken ages, then they came back to the hostel to get some sleep. Earlier on in the day this random drunk Chilean old man staying at the hostel helped himself to some of my soup I made for lunch along with somebody else's bread. He was hungry and was trying to get some money together to buy some hot dogs for lunch, I told him I wasn't hungry and had already eaten loads. He went round nearly everybody asking if they wanted some, he got to the Swiss and they were taken in by him, I believed it to be a con and he just wanted money to get drunk some more. He got about $3000 pesos off the Swiss, enough for a good few hot dogs each or enough for about five litres of beer. The man never returned.
Later in the morning, Bruno told me the reason he hadn't returned was because he had been arrested for drinking alcohol in the street and had spent six hours in a jail cell. He did come through and bought them the ingredients to make their hot dogs even if it was a day late.