Here's a shot from just after our dinner last night, we came out of the building to find two people doing the Tango in the street, with professional photographer snapping away. That's them at the very back of the shot.
It's a little blury, took a couple to get it even that 'good'. The dinner was great, $15 meals that would in Australia cost at least $35. Ate at the fish market earlier in the day which was an experience of a very different sort. Each restaurant wanted our business so much, we literally had to pull ourselves away from several enthusiastic waiters. One even spied the 'Yokugawa Australia' label on dads pocket and greeted us with a 'G'day mate!'. We ended up eating at a place called 'Richard, El Rey del Mariscal'.During our meal we were greatly honoured when Richard himself came out! He jumped behind our table and got a waiter to take a group photo, and then gave us a calender with a picture of his shop...personally signed by Richard himself! (...The calender was for 2007)
Shot of a street in Santiago, just north of Universidad de Chile Metro station. Spent today wandering around the streets, had lunch at a vegetarian restaurant (rare find in Chile, land of 6cm thick cuts of steak) and then visited a pre Columbian museum. Great stuff in there, things dating back past 1500BC along with giant Maya, Inca and Aztec stonework, woodwork, metalwork and tapestries. Then attempted to do some money converting which, to our suprise was a lot more difficult than we thought. You'd imagine Chile would carry currency of its neighbour Peru would you not? Well apparently not, at least in the 6 money exchanges we went into before getting annoyed and heading home.
Here's a shot of Catedral De Santiago which I'm told at least matches the detail and scale of any Cathedral in Europe. (Again with the low quality, lighting isn't good in here and really didnt want to attempt a flash)
Hopefully will write something up here soon,
Steven.
2 comments:
Formatting still sucking. Apologies.
oh wow, they're dancing in the street! thats amazing. and the cathedrial is real pretty. glad you guys are having a great time:-D and very jealous of all the kool restaurants yous are going to lol.
jess
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