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20/1/2018 a lazy day in Coyhaique

By Anonymous
 Not much to say really. Jochen and Chiara left to catch their flight. For the breakfast, we found a nice coffee place called Holzer. Had good breakfast with coffee for about 4900 pesos each. I decided to buy ferry tickets to get from Raul Marin Balmaceda to Quellon. I bought the ferry tickets online using Naviera Austral website, 7300 pesos each. For some reason, I didnt get any confirmation email, but I took a screenshot with the transaction number. It was 11:30am and I didn’t have any email, so checked if they have an office here. Naviera Austral has got an office in Coyhaique and closes at 12:30 on Saturday and is closed on Sunday. I went there and put what I needed to a translator and came back with the ferry tickets. Quite a lot of people were in their office, I had to wait for about 20 minutes in the queue. 

Then we went to withdraw money - found one bank which charges fee only 4000 pesos for the withdrawal - ServiEstado. So we took 300000 pesos out to have a stash for a while. We also stopped in a small book/stationery shop, had a lovely simple conversation with the owner and her son (she wanted to know many things about the Czechs). We then did the second half of our laundry, went for a walk to the river and then we went to buy some food to Unimarc supermarket. 

On the way there I noticed a tourist couple crossing the road at the same time. Later in the day they took a room at the same place as we were. So we met Aimee and Mike in the evening. A nice couple from Australia. This evening we also had a dinner in the place we were staying, simple bread and cheese. 

Also in the evening, Andres messaged me if I’m in Coyhaique, so I arranged to meet up for the next day morning. As I had to do my self assessment for uk tax and it was a bit nightmare without my laptop with all the information in hand. 



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