First Visitors

After one year and one month of Chile, I had my first visitors from across the ocean. My good old partner of so many adventures throughout Europe came with a friend to leave his footprint on the end of the world. This ended up with a memorable bunch of moments for us, the ones we will be talking about in a few years, God knows where! Since I was working during half their time here, they came to visit me up North at the observatory. The first time I saw them was 150 kms away from the closest piece of civilization, in one of the remotest countries in the world. How likely would this be, more than two years ago, the last time I had seen him...

For my rest shift we saved some plans. The first of them was a Radiohead concert in Santiago, since I had already bought tickets for me. Kraftwerk opened the night, in a mix of respectful electronic root sounds and incredible visual effects. The stadium was full, full of people that had no idea who was playing by then, not even a clue that, if it wasn't for them, there would be no Radiohead these days. Then we had more than two hours of beautiful melancholy. The most recent album alternating with the classics (see video below).

After the concert we went to a disco. A friend from Paranal got us in the guestlist of one of the most exclusive discos in Santiago, definitely a place to go back to. Quality house music and a good decoration are really hard to find in Chile. In fact we knew later that Radiohead themselves were there two days after... From here the night started to be sprinkled with a succession of odd events that led to us getting home in the morning. It reminded me a lot of the good old crazy moments we had together every time we travelled. History reinventing itself. Strange lines, the ones our paths follow...