Monday morning started with a mission. You see, I discovered after two days of snapping a couple of hundred photos (I’m not subjecting you to all of them, trust me), that I didn’t have the battery charger with me, and I still have a couple of weeks of travel ahead of me. So, off to… Read More Do I hate Mondays?
I’d had it in mind to go to a “traditional” place called Doña Tina, that a couple of people recommended. But when I looked at the logistics, the cost of the taxi to go and come back would have run double the cost of dinner – it’s way off to the northeast part of the… Read More The Good Boys
From the mercado, one can see a huge hill rising off to the northeast. It appears to be a bit of a hike, and it is, but it was my goal for the afternoon, the Parque Metropolitano. First, it required a wander through Barrio Patronato, a community that, reminds me in many ways of the… Read More Postprandial Wander
So hmm, what other stuff have I noticed here that’s different. Did I mention it’s clean? No dog poop on the sidewalks. There are street sweepers out early a.m. cleaning the sidewalks and streets, even on a Sunday morning. There are proper color-coded recycling bins every couple of blocks, and real trash cans to drop… Read More Day Two in Santiago
Hey, really, I’m just getting started, all this has been only half the first day! So, on to the afternoon – much of which I actually spent napping, not having slept yet (our last dinner of the year ended around 1 a.m., we still had to clean up, I had to finish packing, and be… Read More More Santiago
So, what about the food here. Well, let’s start with everything I was told… no, forewarned, about coming to Santiago… Chileans aren’t friendly. They’ll cheat you left and right. Santiago is dangerous. Be careful, if not paranoid, about everything. Chilean food is so bland it makes Porteño food look spicy. What decent food there is… Read More Santiago, at first bite
Out for a late morning wander to check out the surroundings of the hostel, as well as on towards the Estacion Central, the 1897 train station that was actually built in Paris to a design by Gustave Eiffel, the guy who designed that tower, and shipped over to Santiago piece by piece – wish I’d… Read More Santiago, at first glance
No quotes, just quick posts as I have time on my visit to Santiago de Chile, originally named, Santiago del Nuevo Extremo, by founder Pedro di Valdivia. First off, just a series of photos of the mountains as we flew in over them (the city is located in a deep valley, inside a mountain range,… Read More Santiago del Nuevo Extremo 1