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This has been a hard Easter. I never like admitting things like this on a blog, but then that is what it is for. Honest admissions and fair reflections and all that…

Rachel has been up the mountain for 7 days now and it happens to be the quietest week in Santiago. I miss her and our families. Even our Santiago friends are away or unavailable at the moment. I have little work to do and everyone else is celebrating Easter today (as is the Catholic tradition) and watching movies starring Jesus and Moses. No, really. They live for these movies at Easter time, despite them dating from the 1960s. No Tom and Jerry for the kids this morning…. just Jesus, wearing sandles and bad make-up.

Living in a foreign land is difficult at times. I think i’m feeling more isolated than ever before in Chile. With technology like Skype and MSN you might think it is getting easier, but the technology of sleep hasn’t changed, so the UK goes to bed as we start our evening.

They’ve been long quiet evenings this week… not something i’m accustomed to nor something I have ever really liked. You know me… hyper-Doug, party-goer, hiker and horticulturalist. Or Horrid Boy (Auntie Dorothy). Handyman and hen-pecked are debatable too!

Today, the city is dead- hardly any cars on the road nor pedestrians. It is like everyone has vapourised or something. But this has two wonderful consequences- the air is clean thus the view of the mountains is magic, and the silence is bliss (bar the odd car alarm).

Back to my book then…. “Is religion dangerous?” by Prof Keith Ward.

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