Santiago in 1 Post

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Chile, Oct - Chile

And the trip has begun! It started with a great omen on the plane sitting next to a Chilean named Lola (Lindsey’s high school Spanish name), who happened to be a super interesting Hindu, veg head, tarot card reading, art extraordinaire, who also happens to live most of the year in San Diego, about 2 blocks from where Lindsey lived in San Diego back in the day. She was incredibly nice and friendly, gave us some great recommendations throughout Chile, and generally just got us all pumped about Chile and Chileans.

Starting off in Santiago proved to be the perfect first stop location. It’s a very modern city and seems to emanate tinges of New York City (busy sidewalks and small shops lining the streets) as well as Washington DC (a bazillion universities and all of the governmental buildings you can imagine), with beautiful architecture, we should add.

The highlights so far have been…

  • Our 14th floor apartment with balcony and amazing views of Cerro San Cristobol, Avenida Providencia, and the sunsets (thanks Airbnb).
  • Our first day lounging in the local sculpture garden (which we dubbed Makeout Park due to all of the highschoolers tonguing it out).
  • A self-guided walking tour of the governmental buildings and the badass Museum of Pre Columbian Artifacts.
  • Stumbling across the World Homeless Soccer tournament (4 on 4) where over 50 countries send actual homeless youth and young adults to compete, and happening to catch the USA men’s play Kyrgystan and the USA women’s play India (it said Slum Soccer on their jerseys). The men’s goalkeeper was from Chicago. Represent!
  • Dinner with a friend of a friend, but now our friend, Jayne Morgan owner of Japi Jane (sounds like “Happy” in Spanish, not Jewish American Princess) www.japijane.cl, now having three locations, vendors of “juguetes eroticos.” If you have a girlfriend or mother in Santiago, odds are she’s been there. She was unbelievably nice and fun and brought us to a great restaurant and gave us great insight into the Chilean culture.
  • Meeting with Alberto Cardemil at Carey y Cia (thanks Ryan Schultz) learning a ton about Chilean law firms and their economy as well as soaking in some amazing views from their fancy offices.
  • Pablo Neruda’s house, La Chascona in Bellavista which is a museum and a really awesome indoor, outdoor, secret door, artsy fartsy place he built to live in.
  • An amazing nap atop Cerro San Cristobal in the Jardin Botanico Chagual, after riding up there in a furnicular from the 1920s and then hiking for an hour.
  • Lindsey downing a big bowl of ceviche, as fresh as it could get, straight from the Mercado Central, a giant seafood market.
  • Drinking terremotos (earthquakes) at La Piojera which kicked our asses (thanks to SteveRod who told us to look for the yellow brick building next to the seafood market)

It was hard to narrow down pics but below are a few of our favorites with the rest being accessible through our Santiago album on Flickr, here.

5 Comments

  1. Where’s the like button? Haha… Great photos. What an incredible experience!!!
    Cheers to you two!!

  2. Steverod

    Huh??? “Look for yellow brick building”. I told you that? You must know 2 steverods. I’ve never even been to Santiago!

    • Lindsey

      We only know 1 SteveRod! Hilarious because we wound up in a traditional Chilean bar with traditional Chilean strong ass drinks and traditional Chilean music and people watching. Maybe we should be on yellow brick building tour?! You were probably talking about Buenos Aires, but somehow we added it to our Santiago notes.

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