Lafayette Hotel Santiago

... for
the record- an asado is a South American BBQ which is just soooooo
good! Argentines are most famous for their meaty gastronomy but as i
quickly discovered, Chileans know how to marinate cook meat as well!!
Her sister and brother-in-law came over and we had Sunday lunch
together with her parents- man, i was bombarded with more meat than
somebody would eat during Christmas!! When i asked if this sort of
affair was normal, Claudia ...

... in the running to knock off the one from the Vegie Bar in Brunswick St. It was a little pricey, but well worth it. We chose a wine called "Aroma del Niños" and it was really great. Could have easily had another few glasses of that - luckily my budget didn´t allow it! We headed home about 10:30ish. Bid Simon and Elianne farewell, swapped emails etc so we could keep ...

... us there...

After taking showers and spending a good amount of time on the Internet, we took a short walk over to the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (Chilean Museum of Precolumbian Art), which hosts a wide array of artifacts from many pre-Columbian American civilizations, and is free on Sundays...

There´s something about the street life here that´s enchanting and leaves something to be desired ...

... We had to take three different lines, but she knew without hesitation how to get to our final destination. I would have been there for awhile, studying the maps in the tunnels. We scooted back to the hostel, went to bed, for a new day, OUT of Santiago! I had concluded my airplane business, and we wanted to get to Mendoza, for the wine festival before we missed out!

Aujourd'hui : rien. Matage de series en mageant des pasteles de Choclo (drole de plat sucre-sale qui se vend dans la boulangerie en bas). Nous arrivons le soir a Santiago chez Nelson qui vit en banlieu. Petite fete avec Liberty et trois amis de Nelson charmes par l'accent francais de Lucie, eheh ...

... the town where tired bicyclists were sipping energy drinks and young couples sitting on a granite parapet were paying attention neither to byciclists nor to a great city beneath. This is where I first tried mote con huesillos - a delightfully refreshing drink with dried peaches and some seeds of unknown to me origin. This is also I where I waited for sunset for many hours. It did not come. I got back on a funicular and walked down the streets lined with old ...

... het zicht op de oceaan. (Gelukkig waren het geen olietenkers!) Halvewege de middag tot 2x nog een show gehad van een vijftal vliegtuigjes die verschillende partronen vlogen!! Annemarth heeft het later die middag (én later nu nog in Nederland.. ) echter wel heel erg te verduren gehad. Dacht nog even snel bruin te worden en had een 'ik smeer me niet in' mentaliteit... heel slim in Chli!!; van neus ...

I remember when I first saw the pyrenees and thought ´wow´. Then I flew over the Austrian Alps and it was double ´wow´. For southern Chile I could fill the page with ´wows´. Look at a map. Look at all those fragmented parts of Chile that form innumerable mountain islands. We saw them all. You can never see enough glaciers and from 34000ft they were particularly spectacular. For the best part of 2 hours we flew over ...

... extremely popular in their area of Germany, near Rostock?!

Naturally their English was better than my 'nichts gut' German, but they did seem very entertained whenever I dropped in a bit of their native tongue, so to speak...

I worked out that every time I ...