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I know its meant to be all about Christmas..
Blog: Pasándolo Chancho - 24 December 2009
... but first, I feel I really have to draw your attention to the air quality today:
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Christmas in Chile, a Jewish foreigner observer's tale
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 24 December 2009
Christmas is afoot in the southern hemisphere, as it likely is in your corner of the globe. This hopefully answers the age-old question, "When do they celebrate Christmas?" once and for all. I'm not sure who the speaker was in that case, but I have it carefully filed next to the question "What language will the baby speak when it's born?" once asked by a long-deceased family member (and they are many) with regards to a family's child who was to be born outside of the United States.To which the answer is of course, December, and none, in that order.
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Cheers to That - Things Chileans Like No. 1: Speeches
Blog: Pasándolo Chancho - 21 December 2009
I don't know whether this is an Australian thing, but there are very few occasions in my life where I have felt the need to impart my wisdom to a random group of people.**
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Blog Update: Talca, Chillan and Santiago, Chile + Chile Wrap-Up
Blog: The Amazing Dawdle - 11 December 2009
ChillanSo our stay in Chillan was arranged by looking at a map … and finding out where the distances would be in between Santiago and Villarica, so we would not have to do an overnight bus ride again. Let’s face it, we were done with these rides and people virtually sitting in our laps.
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On Chilean Grammar and keeping those legs crossed
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 9 December 2009
Hey kids, put your grammar hats on, because it's time to talk about verb endings in Chilean Spanish (and friends beseeching male friends to not have that baby right then and there, but that comes at the end, skip ahead if you have a short attention span).
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Faces From Around the World: Chile
Blog: GoBackpacking - 8 December 2009
I'm free, doing what I enjoy and getting to travel at the same time.Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Santiago’s Surprises
Blog: Away Together - 29 November 2009
On Day 2 of our short visit to Santiago, Chile, Morgan and I talked about how stupid we felt for having lumped Chile with Argentina and assuming they’d be the same.
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Café Le Garage in Barrio Brasil, Santiago
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 23 November 2009
In just a minute, I'll dish on cafés in Barrio Brasil, Santiago. But first, let me explain the title.
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Santiago, Chile: Finding a Happy Place
Blog: The Silent I - 14 November 2009
February 11, 2004 We left Easter Island on February 10 and started back to California via Santiago Chile. We arrived late in the afternoon, and Alex decided to have the worst temper tantrum of his life in the luggage claim...
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What does a taxi in Santiago say?
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 5 November 2009
Have you ever been unable to find an item in your house (keys, camera cable, that movie someone pressed into your hands promising you'd love it and you never watched it and now they want it back), only to rifle through your items like a B-grade detective and come across not the item in question, but the previous thing you'd given up for lost?
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Highlights of Latin America
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 1 November 2009
I had such an awesome time in Latin America it’s pretty hard to pick out favourite moments. But I’m going to give it a go anyway. Here are the best things I’ve seen and done over the past six and a half months, along with links to what I originally wrote about them. Favourite City: Valparaiso, [...]
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De compras con las chauchas! Coin-fueled fresh market foray in Santiago!
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 1 November 2009
Sunday. Day of relaxation, of rest, of work (what? just me?), of move it or lose it re: feria visits. My best closest fresh market is on Sundays, down in Barrio Yungay. For a list of the ferias in the city by comuna (district/neighborhood), don't miss this handy website put out by the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture. Unlike estoeschile, they don't even have an English translation, so you won't waste a bunch of your time clutching your sides at the slips of word.
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Chile Round-up & Budget
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 31 October 2009
Poor, underrated Chile. I didn’t meet a single backpacker in Latin America who reckoned Chile was their favourite country. Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia…yes, frequently. Chile? Never. They always start with a couple of obvious negatives that I must admit I have trouble disagreeing too much with – first off, it’s expensive. Compared to the [...]
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Snow play
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 26 October 2009
My latest adventures are joined together with a common theme that seems to have surfaced lately, all having been concentrated in somewhat colder circumstances than those in the deserts of the North. Dropping from 15· to 40· south does make something of a difference to the temperature! Difference enough in fact for some snow to fall and provide some great opportunities for fun and adventure!First up: Skiing (Valle Nervado, Santiago)
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Wickertown, aka Chimbarongo Revealed
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 17 October 2009
So, after Abby and I took our famous detour to the little hamlet of Pelequén, whereupon we saw the lovely onion-domed church and marveled at our inability to get off the train at the right stop, we set to the task at hand, which was actually seeing Chimbarongo.
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The story I shouldn't tell, re: urine sample in Santiago. Medicine in Chile, always surprising.
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 9 October 2009
In which I tell the story of my first urine sample in Santiago. Just so you know what you're getting into.
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Vamos al médico! Let's go to the doctor! Health care in Chile
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 7 October 2009
One of the questions that gets alot of play over on a board or two that I post on is health care in Chile. About which I can say, it is generally good. There are two systems of health insurance, public and private, FONASA and ISAPRE, respectively which I believe anyone can opt into, though the prices as an individual are higher than as part of a collective contract. I continued my health insurance from my previous employer when I went indie, and if you want to know how much that costs, email me, you know where.
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Santiago Street Dogs, or how to decide whether or not to say yes to an offer for a guest blog post
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 3 October 2009
Ah, complexity, and the formula of because I said so.Every now and then, somewhat less often than the frequency with which I receive spam comments regarding SEO, but more frequently than the advertisements for who knows what that come in the comments, I will get an email or a comment asking me to do a guest blog post.
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XV Feria Vinos de Chile, a wine and photo-filled report
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 1 October 2009
With the application of a little creative mojo and email grovelling, I went to the XV Feria Vinos de Chile at the Plaza San Francisco hotel in downtown Santiago this evening. (Quick deets: Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 2 6:30-10:30)The hotel looks like this:
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Going to Synagogue in Chile, the Yom Kippur version, with several remembrances
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 28 September 2009
I know I won't win any awards for Jewess of the year (offensive term meant playfully people, don't hate) by posting this on Yom Kippur, one of the two most important days on the Jewish calendar, the day that epitomizes Jewish atonement and judgement. However, since the self-denominated Hebrew Mamita Vanessa Hidary has already taken individualism meets Judaism to a new height, there was no chance I'd be awarded anything anyway, and so I write.
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16: "To the north, to the desert: Part 5"
Blog: Dispatches from the Provinces of Argentina - 24 September 2009
Lucy and I got into La Serena just before sunrise, Saturday morning. We took a cab to her house up on a hill high up in the city. You can see a peninsula in the distance lit with hundreds of street and house lights.
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Chile's Sept 18th/19th Parada Militar/Military Parade. In words and pictures
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 21 September 2009
I believe that it is safe to say that the 18th of September and all of the associated brouhaha (with tip of the hat to the Beastie Boys and bonus points to you if you know what song I'm talking about) is finally over. Which makes sense given that it's the 21st of the month already. But when the fiestas patrias mega day of the 18th falls on a Friday, se alargan las fiestas (the party gets drawn out).
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Bearshapedsphere goes skiing! Valle Nevado and fairy dust
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 19 September 2009
Have you ever lived your whole life in a house only to find out that there's a fairy playground behind the tire swing that you could have been peeping at for years? That's how I feel today.
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The dieciocho is almost upon us. Chilean Fiestas Patrias!
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 15 September 2009
Ya viene el 18. The 18th is coming!We're going to a wait a minute on the worst transit stories group blog (but get your creative juices flowing on that one), because the 18th of September (Chilean national holiday, or fiestas patrias) is practically upon us, half of Chile is already on vacation and the other half will be joining them soon. Since I mostly work for myself, I'm on the horns of a dilemma, continue all the zany workity stuff, or take a semi-deserved break? Probably a combination of the two.
