We love Santiago and Chile! I love the neighborhoods, the mountains, the sculpture gardens, the food --especially juicy and crisp apples that are bigger than softballs. But I may be biased. I may be biased because two great friends from DC, Sohair and Sergio Aguirre are here with us in Santiago. They are on their "babymoon". A babymoon is the trip that a couple takes before the baby is born. Sohair is in her second trimester and is leading the charge to explore -- the neighborhoods (we especially like Barrio Lastarria), the "cerros" or hills (we are hiking up Cerro Sancristobal today where the Virgin Mary perches above Santiago), and Santiago's clean metro (Sohair is currently beating me at a balancing game that we have been playing on the metro).
My Santiago enjoyment shines through even though Santiago is famous for its smog and the past two days have been a deluge of rain and flooded streets. We have had two days of constant wet feet but that rain is gone for today. And the rain has cleared away the smog. The white capped mountains are towering over the city in full force.
Another reason for why I am enjoying Santiago so much is that Sergio has an Aunt and cousins who live here in the city. They have been so welcoming to me and Wilson. We have been invited along to long lingering lunch, to Chile's famous port town, Valparaiso, and a delicious home-cooked meal. The home-cooked meal makes my mouth water two days later -- basil stuffed fish, fresh spiced cheese, tater-tot like potatoes (except they were perfectly round), and three different salads of: tomato and grated onion with spices, cucumber and yogurt, and avocado and lettuce. So good. Thank you Natalya and Paulo!
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