Topic: Chile
This was the first weekend in the new apartment though I've been here a week. Good internet--downloaded 2.5 GB of EVLA data though not speedily. A desk. The kitchen us open which helps as the last one was the size of the walkin closet and closed. But it has the most impossibly small fridge I have ever seen outside th
e most basic dorm room. My hotel had about three times the refrigerated space I think. It doesn't even come up to the level of the sink. The previous apartment came stocked with some food to get one through the first nigh; not this one. Good thing as it would not fit. The frozen meats don't really freeze in the tiny freezer compartment designed only for ice cubes.
In the bedroom a limbo is required to squeeze between the TV stand and the bed. I slept on the window side to unencumber Ida Lee's route to the banos. No room for a chair. I hate watching TV in bed. 
Kartik had a solution for the Oscars--turn it around and sit on the verandah. That works fine at night. Of course the noise from Apoquindo, the main artery only a few score feet away is pretty deafening (so one cannot leave the door open at night; there is no AC in this apartment). By day the porch is pleasant enough were it not for the view of a garbage pit and 
portapotties it affords. One might go to the pool but there is no pool.
There is a hot tub but like laundry, that is an added expense ($4/dip). 
