by Eileen | Jan 15, 2014 | bicycle, chile, santiago
So. The other day (Monday, to be exact), I was minding my own business, walking across what in English I would call the park blocks of the Alameda. The Alameda is the main street, and for many blocks, it has a central area that you can bike or walk in. The bike path...
by Eileen | Jun 10, 2013 | bicycle, chile, feria, food, language, travel
Sometimes you will be walking around in the feria, and you will see bags of pale green something in a bag. it will be double-knotted on top, and flattened into a squared-off brick inside its bag, as though you were going to make sandbags out of it to stem an...
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 | Oct 10, 2012 | bicycle, chile, photography, santiago
There’s this whole hideous world-ist meme about how you have a “first world problem” if your hair won’t stay in place, or you run out of K-cups for your coffee maker. It’s funny, on the one hand, because these problems are not really...
by Eileen | Jun 25, 2012 | bicycle, chile, shopping, supermarket
A brand new, poshish mall opened up within a stone’s throw of some of Santiago’s consumer-goods-happy-and-(mostly)-budget-to-support-it neighborhoods, Providencia and Las Condes. The two neighborhoods are split by the street Tobalaba, which wends its way...
by Eileen | May 28, 2012 | bicycle, chile, haha
Some time, ago, I’m guessing about five years, they redid the “bandejón central” (kind of like a long traffic island) that goes down the length of the Alameda, or the main street in Santiago from about the Moneda Palace down to Pajaritos, a distance...
