Feeling crap

Physically that is. I just dined sumptuously - perhaps over-sumptuously - on steak, chips, rice and a fried egg. My gut feels so heavy it could undergo gravitational collapse. It's damn hot. I am having a cold beer - one of two at most, given my stupidly early start tomorrow - but I am too bloated to enjoy it.

There are a lot of flies, at least there were while I was eating in the restuarant courtyard under some kind of awning. Their absence is the sole comfort I have derived from coming into this bar.

OK, half an hour later I went to the bog and left. Nice and cool outside, unlike inside the bar. As I left the woman from behind the bar came out and asked if I'd paid. I said I had. She clearly didn't believe me and I couldn't prove it. I said I'd pay again, and did. WTF, if she's so desperate she needs to resort to scams for less than two quid, fuck her.

I do know I paid earlier as I remember her giving me 5 massive CLP100 coins in change instead of the CLP500 coin I expected.

Can it be coincidence I've been ripped off twice in this town and nowhere else in Chile? It's a good job I'm leaving on Tuesday as otherwise I will have a grudge against every bar in town. :-)

Back at the place where I had dinner for a last beer. It's a bit too late but fuck it. They have a massive outdoor courtyard and have lit two big fires in the middle of it. This looks impressive but makes half the tables unusable as they are unbearably hot.