Hostal Alameda: Aguirre y Los Carrera 6ooo pesos chilenos (a really sweet, old lady is the owner)DAY 1
Within our 1st hour in La Serena our suspicions about Chile proved to be true; a hot dog and a coffee is a perfectly acceptable breakfast and the mullet is all the rage here. Believe it or not, Chileans actually make it look pretty cool and stylish.
La Serena was in fact very serene. We spent our first day catching up on Internet stuff and exploring the city just enough to meet Samir, an Arab from Tunisia, who sells all things belly dance related. He convinced us to do a show in the plaza at night, but we refused his offer of microphones and speakers.
We later found out that we would be competing with about 10 other acts that regularly perform in the plaza ranging from ranchero singers, fully costumed jazz dancers, several clowns, robotic man, the spinning, dancing backwards-playing drum quartet, all bigger and louder than little ol' us.
We managed to gather a small crowd, but we weren't making enough noise to get the attention we needed. When Samir (the first Arab we've come across in our travels so far) came over during our show to see us, I got so nervous that I stopped playing. I was embarrassed, but not as embarrassed as Laura had been after the cane throwing incident during our performance in Bahía Inglesa.We did of course have our usual #1 fan, the harmless drunk man. After an hour, we took our $7.50 and called it a night. It wasn't over though. We were already devising a plan to give those other groups a run for their money. We'd be back.
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