🎥 Valdivia, Chile

March 21, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Quelques jours à Valdivia, au Chili, pour une bonne dose de délicieuses bières locales et de belles rencontres animales. A few days in Valdivia, Chile, for delicious local beers and some animal watching.

🇺🇸 Chilean rivalry

March 20, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

March 20, 2016 We found Chileans in northern Chile do not like Santiago. Though living in a hot desert themselves, they claim the concrete of the capital radiates heat well after the sun goes down, and with the lack of breeze, it is impossible to feel comfortable. In the south, news of our recent two-week […]

🎥 Kunstmann tasting, Chile

March 19, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dégustation de bières à la Brasserie Kunstmann, Valdivia, Chili. Beer tasting at the Kunstmann Brewery, Valdivia, Chile.

🇺🇸 Hasta luego Santiago

March 17, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

A wine-happy Andrea left wine-happy us on a Friday, and we enjoyed a relaxing weekend with Loreto and family. Santiago graciously allowed us to sleep in his Cars-themed room. During the day, he would join us in his room, often enjoying hanging out by the window from his bed-frame perch before diving into the bed. […]

🇺🇸 Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

March 17, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

March 17, 2016 Enjoying some local crafts on this St. Patrick’s Day at the southernmost end of this trip!

🇺🇸 Markets & Wine in Santiago

March 12, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

Back in Santiago we hopped on another walking tour, this one taking us through the fish and fruit markets and the expansive General Cemetery. The impressive wrought-iron structure was brought over piece by piece from England in the 19th century. Cats make sure rodents steer clear of the fruit in La Vega Central market, a […]

🎥 Hasta luego, Santiago

March 11, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Nos derniers jours à la capitale chilienne. Gracias y hasta luego Santiago ! Our last days in the Chilean capital. Gracias y hasta luego Santiago!

🇺🇸 Valpo

March 10, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

We woke up early Wednesday morning to catch a bus to the coastal, port city Valparaiso. The view from our Santiago balcony revealed (what we believe to be) Venus rising up over the Andes, our lovely Cerro Santa Lucía a-glow. Valparaiso is full of cerros (sizeable hills) 45 of them, in fact; consequently the city […]

🎥 Valparaiso, Chile

March 9, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Une inoubliable journée au paradis des artistes de rue, Valparaiso au Chili. A wonderful day in the street-artist paradise, aka Valparaiso, Chile.

🇺🇸 Segunda semana en Santiago

March 9, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

For a look at our first week in Santiago, click here. After a week in Santiago, our good friend Andrea joined us! We rented an apartment right in the center and that first afternoon we climbed the nearby hill and garden, Cerro Santa Lucia. We are so artsy They don’t claim to have the best […]