Pablo Neruda and Casas de Bosque

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  Santiago, Chile
Thursday, February 21, 2008

well, thursday we packed up and left valpo.  when we were leaving the hostel, a man who "watches" the cars that are parked on the street asked us for money for keeping an eye on our car for the past 2 days.  ismael told him he didn´t own the street and that he had asked the guy who runs the hostel if we had to pay and he said no.  the man was a jerk and said something about mexico, so that got ismael´s blood boiling.  but we left without incident.  what a pinhead.  wanting us to pay for parking on a public street.  and then insulting his country.  people can be idiots. 

before we left town we wandered the neighborhood and ismael took a gazillion pictures of the murals and grafitti.  then we stopped at pablo neruda´s house, one of 3 he had in chile.  he was a nobel prize winning poet and a political figure in chile.  the house was designed to have the best view of the city, and it does, from the study upstairs it´s almost 360degrees

lots of wires

.  the original architect died before completeing it, so neruda finished the inside and designed it to be like a ship, narrow passages, low ceilings, lots of wood.  the decor is very ecclectic, but interesting. 

then it was off to santiago, with a stopover at the bodega casas de bosque in the casablanca valley.  (look at that, i´ve been to casablanca)  this was the nicest and most modern winery we´ve visited.  we got to choose which wines we wanted to taste and they gave us a plate of nuts and raisins made from their grapes.  these were some of the best wines we´ve had too.  i really liked the sauvignon blanc reserve and wanted to try the late reserve (the sweetest one), but i wasn´t allowed that one.  ismael liked the pinot noir.  reds are more complex and my palate isn´t that sophisticated yet.  i´ll stick with my sweet whites.  we wanted to ship a box of them home, but the shipping alone would have been $300.  sad.  we´ll have to try and find it when we go home.  they sell it in florida and boston (libby, you might have to get us a few bottles next time you head out that way)

we got into santiago and had to say goodbye to our tiny car.  a little sad, now we´re subject to public transportation again.  after dinner we went back to the hostel and watched the democratic debates.  No more drama, vote for Obama!  it was very interesting, my first debate i´ve watched all the way through.  i´m becoming such a grownup.

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