by Eileen | Sep 10, 2012 | chile, photography, santiago
Here’s more on my Santiago. República is a neighborhood that heads south from along the Alameda, departing from about Los Héroes, República or Unión Latinoamerica metros. Moving south from the Alameda, the next two main streets are Sazié and Grajales, and I took...
by Eileen | Sep 5, 2012 | photography, travel
Typical breakfast in Costa Rica Ever since an 8.8 earthquake hit Chile in February, 2010, I take earthquakes very personally. Were the people afraid? Did it roar and shake, and did the water splash in the sink and did the roof fall in and did your favorite tree just...
by Eileen | Aug 30, 2012 | coffee, food, health, santiago, shopping
For a long, long time, I have been meaning to go up to the Eco Feria in La Reina. It’s mostly organic veggies, and is giant on Saturdays, and much smaller on Wednesdays, or so I’m told. There’s babywearing devices and organic, free-range eggs and...
by Eileen | Aug 27, 2012 | art, chile, santiago, travel
For reasons I’ll divulge sometime, but not now, I’ve recently been thinking a lot about places tourists don’t go, but should, in Santiago. Should in the sense that they’d see a part of Santiago that’s not packaged and presented and...
by Eileen | Aug 20, 2012 | travel, Uncategorized
I have been in two places at once, or actually four places at once this last month. According to my blog, I’m in Chile, Santiago or La Serena or somewhere else. But in actual fact, I was a few thousand km away, first in Medellín, and then in Bogotá, and then...