We also couldn't leave town without having a picture at the airport. I often wear a bright color when traveling to be more easily seen in a crowd if we get separated. If you'll notice, the front of my shirt says "Mexico".
Turns out not to be the best choice. Once we hit the ground in Chile, everyone assumed that I could speak Spanish!
Thanks to those who came to see us off. It was an emotional, difficult good-bye (so long).
Ok. . . so we are now in Santiago (with our luggage! Thank you Air Canada. You ripped our bags but didn't loose them!) and our first day was mostly TCB. (Takin' Care Of business)
A shuttle from the airport to our hotel revealed Santiago to be a large, polluted metropolis. No big surprise I guess! It will be our job to find the beauty and history of the city when we head out later. Our hotel is essentially a small apartment. (Bedroom, Living room, bathroom, galley kitchen and small balcony.
This is the view of the Andes and the neighborhood (barrio) of Providencia from our balcony
After getting settled in, we struck out to find a power plug adaptor (the one I brought didn't work), and get some groceries.
We got all we needed at a large supermarket
but there were also street stands selling fruit and veggies. Artichokes and avicadoes at this one. Notice the jackets and touques! It's the end of Winter here . . . about 12 degrees.
We also explored the subway system, and checked into getting cell phones. See what I mean? TCB! While doing all this, we soon found out just how little English there is on the streets of Santiago but so far no problem in that regard.
Following the crowd in Providencia, Santiago.
At the end of what was a very long day, Charlene prepared our first meal and of course served it with some fine (cheap) Chilean wine.
For those familiar with the beautiful pottery of Elaine Friesen, check out the wine gobblets! You can't see it very well in the photo, but both goblets have some prairie wheat etched into the pottery. Thanks, Elaine for allowing us to have a little bit of home when we are so far away.
Communication seems to be working as we had hoped. SKYPE is magic and email makes home feel just a little bit closer.
The sky is clearing so it's off to discover something cool! Yesterday we were so tired wandering around the streets of the city not really sure where we were going. Usually we both have a good sense of direction, but yesterday just didn't click, I would think we were going North and Charlene would think we were going South. We did agree at times, but it was all very confusing!
At least today we are familiar with the metro and know where, roughly, we want to go.
Till next time, adios,
Love N & C
1 comment:
What a superb report........ALMOST enough detail :-)
People in toques no less!
Hey didn't the converter with the iron work?
As long as you're both going the SAME direction, it really doesn't matter which you each think it IS!!
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