Santiago 2, The Revengening!
Kara says:
Well it seems we did a Nathan. Not quite as spectacularly but a Nathan all the same.
Wouldn't let us board the plane to Cuba without visas...new rules blah, blah, blah...so we're still in Santiago. For a whole extra week (even the staff in the hostel starting suggesting other places to go when he heard this)!
After a brief mourning period we decided to make the most of it and actually I quite like Santiago now (though maybe still in the denial stage).
Photo of me not paying sufficient attention in front of the Palacio de Moneda.
A photo of a church and a jacaranda - pop quiz: Santiago or Brisbane?
So having a week in Santiago we thought it was time to hit the vineyards (having already hit the wine). Decided on Concha y Toro as I've been financially supporting them from a distance for years. Interesting fact that I only discovered this year - I always thought Concha y Toro was a region with lots of different wineries but it's actually one very large business with vineyards spread over the region and lots of different brands of wine.
Photo of Karl in the vineyard, of their oldest cellar and of the "Casillo del Diablo" cellar where the original owner stored his best wines and spread a rumour that the devil lived there to stop the locals stealing it.
Also went to the exhibition of some of the terracotta warriors from Xian. See Karl out front channeling the qi. Each of the warriors is completely unique (unlike the statues of the female attendants who were made slightly smaller than lifesize and all pretty much uniform in the unimportance) in their appearance. We found a Benny Chen! He was an important general or something big.
Been hangin' out at the hotel quite a bit. Have noticed the staff also seem to have too much time on their hands.
And an insight into life on the road - photo of Karl's underwear drying on the bathroom door.
Christmas has officially arrived and fair play to the Chileans they realise that it starts on the 8th and have the good sense to make it a public holiday. Decorations appeared on the outside of our door on the 8th so we thought we should join in and got ourselves a tree and some tinsel.
So this time we really are going to Cuba, well just La Habana now 'cause we've run out of time.
Oh. And I've had to revoke my "South Americas most liberated women" prize I had previously bestowed on Chilean women having noticed that the policemen here get big manly off-road motorbikes and the female officers get mopeds.
Well it seems we did a Nathan. Not quite as spectacularly but a Nathan all the same.
Wouldn't let us board the plane to Cuba without visas...new rules blah, blah, blah...so we're still in Santiago. For a whole extra week (even the staff in the hostel starting suggesting other places to go when he heard this)!
After a brief mourning period we decided to make the most of it and actually I quite like Santiago now (though maybe still in the denial stage).
Photo of me not paying sufficient attention in front of the Palacio de Moneda.
A photo of a church and a jacaranda - pop quiz: Santiago or Brisbane?
So having a week in Santiago we thought it was time to hit the vineyards (having already hit the wine). Decided on Concha y Toro as I've been financially supporting them from a distance for years. Interesting fact that I only discovered this year - I always thought Concha y Toro was a region with lots of different wineries but it's actually one very large business with vineyards spread over the region and lots of different brands of wine.
Photo of Karl in the vineyard, of their oldest cellar and of the "Casillo del Diablo" cellar where the original owner stored his best wines and spread a rumour that the devil lived there to stop the locals stealing it.
Also went to the exhibition of some of the terracotta warriors from Xian. See Karl out front channeling the qi. Each of the warriors is completely unique (unlike the statues of the female attendants who were made slightly smaller than lifesize and all pretty much uniform in the unimportance) in their appearance. We found a Benny Chen! He was an important general or something big.
Been hangin' out at the hotel quite a bit. Have noticed the staff also seem to have too much time on their hands.
And an insight into life on the road - photo of Karl's underwear drying on the bathroom door.
Christmas has officially arrived and fair play to the Chileans they realise that it starts on the 8th and have the good sense to make it a public holiday. Decorations appeared on the outside of our door on the 8th so we thought we should join in and got ourselves a tree and some tinsel.
So this time we really are going to Cuba, well just La Habana now 'cause we've run out of time.
Oh. And I've had to revoke my "South Americas most liberated women" prize I had previously bestowed on Chilean women having noticed that the policemen here get big manly off-road motorbikes and the female officers get mopeds.
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