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puddin:
I like the way you think Plaidmoon, outside the box :tup:
Just following up and came across this but am having a hard time finding the whole sighting, maybe someone will have better luck :lol:
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The Amazing race was being filmed whie wer were in town, and Elise had the pleasure of seeing many moronic Americans carrying paint tins up the hills. We ...
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georgiapeach:
In full:
Funky like James Brown, Valparaiso, Chile, 28-31 November 2009
Valpo is a UNESCO heritage listed city built on a number steep hills overlooking the Pacific, an hour or so from Santiago. We met James and Dave here again, though they were lured to another hostel by the promise of a free breakfast.
Valpo was unlike any other city I`ve been to. The terrain would definitely be in the too-hard basket for most rational settlers but luckily the Chileans were unperturbed, and decided to built houses (out of second hand bricks and tin) that barely cling to the hillsides. To disguise their likely imminent collapse due to missing cement and foundations, not to mention many laws of physics, most were painted in brilliant colours, creating an amazing visual effect (which no doubt these words are failing to do). Like everyone, the residents of Valpo hate walking up hills, particularly steep ones. To overcome this, external “elevators / funiculares” were built about 100 years ago and are still functioning today, mainly for the purposes of scaring the **** out of tourists. All four of us survived many trips, but were happy to use the stairs for any downhill journeys.
Three interesting things happened during our time there
1. We went for a drink and were approached by a night club promoter who told us about an event his brother, one of Chile`s pre-eminent jazz saxophonists, was playing. He warned us that it was likely “to get funky, like James Brown”. Surely something was lost in translation.
2. The Amazing race was being filmed whie wer were in town, and Elise had the pleasure of seeing many moronic Americans carrying paint tins up the hills. We were chased away every time we went for our cameras, so you`ll have to watch all of season 27 to check the truthfulness of this.
3. Garfield. The gringo route is well known and well travelled, so it`s not unusal to run into the same people along the way. However, Garfield, an Englishmen of unknown age (I said 30, everyone else said 40) was at the same restaurant as us in Mendoza, took the same bus to Santiago (20 leave a day) and stayed at the same hostel in Valpo. Wearing the same clothes every time. I`ve been looking over my shoulder ever since.
puddin:
Any photos? :lol: Thanks peach, my brain is still in the "dead of winter" , I'm not kidding brrrrrrrrrrrrr
georgiapeach:
No pics. :(
We need a brrrrrrrrrrrrr smiley, lol.
puddin:
dug this out of the tweets:
--- Quote from: Sailing on December 18, 2009, 05:33:45 AM ---Saw this posted on Facebook:
Nathan Antoun assisted the blue team of the Amazing Race in Penang on Monday.
It was posted on Wed at 7:20am
Would that fit the timeline?
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