Red sky at night …..
….. means that the smog is bad. Despite two days of downpour, the first decent rain of the year, the smog doesn’t seem to have cleared much. For one day it seemed to be clearer, but last saturday we went hiking just outside the city. Chile only has two sorts of hike - completely flat or zig-zagging up a steep mountain. Needless to say Douglas prefers the latter, so once again we found ourselves at the peak of a mountain after a 2500ft climb, looking down over Santiago. We know it was Santiago because we couldn’t see it - in fact we couldn’t see anything except a thick layer of yellow-brown “cloud”. Still, you have to look on the bright side - with all the pollution the sunset was truly spectacular!