by Eileen | May 18, 2013 | chile, feria, food, food and drink, photography, santiago, shopping
For reasons that are perhaps only clear to the gods of Reddit themselves, I got some 2500 extra hits on my blog over the course of a couple of days, due to (I guess) someone in Ecuador getting fleeced in the food purchasing department, and someone else holding out my...
by Eileen | May 14, 2013 | food, food and drink, photography, travel
Everyone wants to be the New York of somewhere. Take Buenos Aires, for example. People want it to be the New York of South America. When I was in Copenhagen, and felt like people were being snooty in my direction, I got the feeling they thought they were the Paris of...
by Eileen | Feb 7, 2013 | food, food and drink, shopping, travel
This has happened to me once before, this purchasing of an unwieldy object while on the road, as if I forget that this thing, this cumbersome thing, will accompany me through my travels for the next few weeks. The first time it happened was with a large, unwieldy hat....
by Eileen | Jan 12, 2013 | bicycle, food and drink, haha, travel
There’s a funny story about a day and all of the various ways it did not go right. Worry not, this post ends well. A few days ago, I had to schlep bags hither and yon from the satellite hostel house I was staying at in Managua. I had a cold, but despite...
by Eileen | Nov 12, 2012 | chile, feria, food, food and drink
The story of how I changed ferias. By Eileen Smith In the merciless joy of making fun of how idiosyncratic New Yorkers are, I had a great time when my sister and brother in law moved in together on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. You see, they each moved about two...
by Eileen | Mar 1, 2012 | feria, food and drink, santiago, shopping
I know, bla bla, we have awesome produce in Chile bla. But a recent possible facebook throwdown from some friends means I have to keep my game on. Though since there are two of them, and only one of me, their haul and story has to be twice as good as mine. And I...