by Eileen | Sep 23, 2012 | chile, food, photography, santiago, shopping
I went to the feria chanting (in my mind), cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley, lemons. Because these were what I needed to buy for birthday (not mine) tabbouleh. The swiss chard, mandarines, avocado, eggplant, scallions, radishes, broccoli, penca (more on this in a sec) and...
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 | 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 13, 2012 | chile, travel
While I was busy not hating La Serena, the idea for a short daytrip developed. Actually we had wanted to go to the elusive and hard to get to Fray Jorge park, to wander on white sands and probably get sunburnt and thirsty. But since it was a long weekend, there were...
by Eileen | Aug 10, 2012 | chile, travel
The first time I visited La Serena, a midsize city on the coast in the Norte Chico of Chile, about six hours by bus from Santiago, I was wholly unimpressed. First of all, it was winter, and therefore very quiet. The main plaza was also wrapped in construction fences,...
by Eileen | Aug 2, 2012 | chile, photography, santiago, Uncategorized
Recent field trips with friends and photography classes have taken me to Santiago’s Recoleta cemetery quite a few times lately. It’s a lovely place, varied and bright, with sections for the well-to-do and regular folk, streaming with flowers and mementos...
