Tractors and Cows
Yesterday afternoon my daughter came home on the bus to attend a funeral. I drove her back in the evening to her student apartment. The round trip, going by highway (with an eagle eye out for radar guns) takes around an hour, depending on how long I stay to chat or the traffic in the city. Last night it was over an hour and a half. At least fifty minutes were spent trying to get into Santiago. I took the usual route and at a rotary where I would have had to turn right into the city, there was an informative policeman. He was turning many drivers away, who then went around the rotary and back where we came from. It was my turn and I asked, "Can I get to the street Carmen de Abaixo through the South Campus?" No, impossible. I could only do it through the back lanes which I had no idea how to get to. I would have to go through the center of town. The reason? The tractorada . A tractorada is a parade of tractors blocking traffic. I later read in the digital newspapers that the...