Villarricas faded Sunday evening streets, out on the hunt for food I note that Funerales Corona is open, always good to know that one can pop one’s clogs on a sunday evening without having to worry about one’s corpse kicking around until 9am on Monday. Finding something to eat on the other hand…. I do eventually find a bar happy to put a lomito sandwich together but I can’t help laughing to myself about the bar economics that says the addition of one or two lettuce leaves to a lomito tomate adds 1000 pesos to the bill. While I’m pondering my choice of fillings the TV over the bar is showing football, a player is being interviewed.. his name is Eduardo Ponce. Sounds about right… for a footballer. I asked the girl behind the bar for a Cerveza Austral.. “ah, no tengo” she says. OK I say, I’ll have any local Chilean beer then.. She plonks down a bottle of Cusquena… from Peru. Brilliant, geography clearly not strong on the curriculum here :-) Or maybe that should be beerography…
p.s for a guide to all things beery in South America check out Pete’s words on the topic here.. that is Pete that I rode with in Peru by the way.
Ahh, I’m feeling inspired already Mike. Have a good trip. D
hehe, cheers. I’m going to do v.short days ’till my chest is better, there’s a stunning national park 70km from here so going to cycle up there and camp by the lakes :-)