My last day in Santiago, I'm in a bistro cafe, having my dinner, chicken salad.  Went across the street to Inglasia San Fransisco the old church this morning, it was built in 1572, only eighty years after Columbus discovered the Americas, can't believe it, and so far down, so far inland from the Pacific Ocean.  The walls are about six or seven feet thick, so even though it was damaged it is still standing.  Went thru the museum this morning--it is in all the rooms surrounding the courtyard.  Hundreds of paintings on the walls, some have been restored, but most are very dark and hard to see.  There is one area were there were silver chalaces, but there were quite few considering the time when churches were smothered in gold and silver because. God deserved the best.  The explaination was that the Fransican monks wanted to have a church with more a humble outlook.  I was impressed with the whole place: it's age, that it is still standing, everything that was preserved....  National Museum of Chile, it is now housed in what was the orgoinal Royal, government Palace.  Native, old Spanish, developing governments, civil wars, wars between Bolivia and Peru against Chile, which Chile won and kept some land because of winning.  The museums history ended after Allende's death in early 1970's.  Had lunch almost litterly on the sidewalk, competing with the piggons for every crumb, the are really aggressive to get what they must feel is their part of my meal.  I went to the Museum of Santiago but it was closed.  Walked some more, the went to the National Theater for a tour, it was a family of three from Brazil, so the guide went back and forth from Portugase and English, apologizing for his lousy English, and he was head and shoulders above the gal who tried to present the city tour in English, and I told him and the ticket office who before the tour wad skeptical about allowing him to give a bilingual tour including English.  Well that was my day.  So let's try the download speeds at this cafe.

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