by Eileen | Jul 13, 2013 | meta, photography, travel
One of the things I like about traveling, is that it unfolds my origami perceptions of how the world works, and reveals nooks I didn’t know where there, later refolding my mind into a totally new formation, another preconception of how the world works, which is...
by Eileen | May 30, 2013 | chile, health, photography, santiago
When I was making my list of all the things I’d like in a place that would be my home from April 2004 to August 2005 (which was how long I thought I’d live in Chile), I considered many things. Safety. It had to be a place where I had a reasonable...
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 | Apr 9, 2013 | art, chile, photography, santiago
This is a building I had/have an unnatural affection for. This photo is from a couple of years ago, it had since been vacated (and the restaurant inside, named for the street it is on, moved, strangely, across the street to the street Farnor Velasco). What you see...
by Eileen | Dec 20, 2012 | photography, santiago
Here in Santiago, where we plan on celebrating the apocalypse with tacos and chocolate (and tequila for the drinkers), we’d been expecting a very unseasonable rain. Basically, it doesn’t rain from November to April. We occasionally get a heavy rainstorm in...