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Solo Travel Destination: Santiago, Chile
Blog: Solo Traveler - 6 December 2011
This time the destination is Santiago, Chile. Learn what the capital of Chile has to offer solo travelers.
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How to Spend 24 Hours in Santiago
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 15 September 2011
This is a guest post by Kyle Hepp. I’m not an ambitious traveler. Let’s get that out of the way before we even start this post. I’m sure plenty of people would try to see more in Santiago in a day, but after leaving here for 7 years, this is simply my idea of an [...]
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Photo of the Day: Santiago Chile Smog
Blog: Two Backpackers - 19 August 2011
Santiago Chile is the captial and largest city in Chile. Located in the center of the vast country, it’s also known for it’s smog. Thermal inversion (a meteorological phenomenon whereby a stable layer of warm air holds down colder air close to the ground) causes high levels of smog and air pollution to be trapped [...]
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Lady in Santiago
Blog: A Lady in London - 4 March 2011
My Santiago sightseeing took place piecemeal while I was traveling in Chile. First there was my amazing day of wine tasting in the Maipo Valley, then came my evening of exploring bits and pieces of the Santiago restaurant scene. But it was only on my last day in Chile that I had the opportunity to [...]
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Recommended: Travel solo to Santiago, Chile
Blog: Solo Traveler - 1 March 2011
I haven't written "Recommended" destination post for a while but Santiago, Chile has inspired me. Here you go...
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Lady in Valparaiso
Blog: A Lady in London - 24 February 2011
Valparaiso is a city of contrasts. Every time I told a Chilean that I was planning to spend an afternoon there, they raved about the historic port city as if it was the soul of the country. But every time I told a visitor the same thing, they groaned and told me that it was [...]
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Lady Goes Wine Tasting in the Maipo Valley
Blog: A Lady in London - 18 February 2011
A lot of people have asked me why I chose to visit Chile. The answer is twofold. One, by February I find myself so tired of the winter in London that I always take a trip to a warm destination at the end of the month. Two, I made Executive Platinum status on American Airlines [...]
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Travel Solo to Santiago: in Pictures
Blog: Solo Traveler - 1 February 2011
A few select photos of beautiful Santiago. Please enjoy. You can expect travel stories on Santiago and all of Chile over the next number of weeks.
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Santiago tops NYT list of places to go in 2011
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 9 January 2011
I went to sleep in a city with relative anonymity. We're not Buenos Aires. No one comes here for the boliches (discos) nor to go to a milonga (tango hall).
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Gender equality: what decade is Chile really in? (disturbing image below)
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 5 November 2010
Something we often talk about in Chile, locals and foreigners alike, is where we are socially. Where are gay rights, and abortion rights and racial equality? We sometimes use where the United States is as a point of comparison, for example for gay rights, you might say we're in the 60s, or maybe the 70s. For abortion rights, we're certainly pre Roe vs. Wade, as abortion is illegal and a prosecutable offense here.
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(Attempted) Street Crime in Santiago. How I almost became an attacker.
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 5 October 2010
I have seldom been so angry, felt so violent, came so close to running home to get my bike and find the ingrate who decided to ruin my night and go ruin his night. Or week. Or life. Or whatever.
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Is that a putty knife, or are you making me a Chilean sandwich?
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 27 September 2010
You may think, being a person of a certain age, and by that I mean nothing more than that you find my blog mildly entertaining, which puts you in your twenties and up, for the most part, that you know kitchens.You've been in kitchens, you've seen what they contain, you know how to use some (if not all) of the implements contained therein.
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Lights/Luces at La Moneda, Visual Spectacular
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 22 September 2010
Qué quieres que te diga? (What do you want me to say, literally, "what do you want that I tell you (fun with the subjunctive, included!)" Santiago has a lot of really great public spectaculars. Like really, really great. Pequeña Gigante great.
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The parade of unfortunately-named products
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 29 August 2010
If it's Sunday and beautiful out and I'm stuck inside because I have a big project coming up this week and know I should get some work done before that happens so I can run on my merry way to the gym, and various lunch and coffee whatsises, then the least I can do is share some unfortunately-named products and companies with you.First, there is ARSE. I took this photo in Parque de Los Reyes at a skateboard competition. Who wouldn't want to hire a company called ARSE? They rent security gates and such.
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My closet walks faster than yours, a tale of bilingual real estate snafus.
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 24 August 2010
Once again, I am thinking of moving. Don't get yourself in a snit about it because a) I hardly ever have people over, b) most of you don't even live in Santiago (yes, I do look at my referral log) and c) change comes very slowly to this one.Among the reasons that I am considering moving include:
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Architecture Disrespect in Santiago and beyond
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 10 August 2010
Architecture disrespect is a term I coined one day when I uploaded this photo to my flickr stream. It's a picada, or sort of a snackbar at the corner of the Alameda (that's Avenida Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins to you) and calle dieciocho (thus the nubmer 18 on the sign). What we have is a beautiful piece of architecture, beautifully tooled and detailed that's been turned into an afterthought, a hat, if you will for a place to eat greasy sandwiches, wipe your fingers on waxed-paper napkins and drink a liter of beer at one sitting.
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Minister Felipe of Mideplan Chile visits Socias of Fondo Esperanza and reveals results of the national socio-economic survey
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 29 July 2010
By Lorena Gil, Kiva Fellow/KF12, Fondo Esperanza - Chile On my first official day at Fondo Esperanza I was quickly whisked to a press release event already underway at a local communal centre in Santiago, Chile, where socias (borrowers) of Fondo Esperanza conduct local weekly meetings. The Ministry of Planning and Cooperation (Mideplan) of Chile chose this location to reveal the results of the national socio-economic survey (Casen 2009)
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Chilean swear words and their kindergarten equivalents
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 27 July 2010
Chileans are a bunch of potty-mouths. There, I said it. I have never heard so many, so colorful, so floridly descriptive garabatos (swear words) any place else in my life. Of course, I've also lived here for a long time, and seem to have an ear for such things. I also think that your grandmother (but certainly not mine) was right, and that they lose their impact when you use them all the time. And if you were wondering, for the most part I don't participate.
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Who's coming to visit Santiago? (and bearshapedsphere?)
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 23 July 2010
Living in what Chileans often like to call the "poto del mundo" or the world's backside (I like the word tush better, but the phrase just weighed better with backside, try it, you'll see), you'd think that the number of people coming to visit or stopping by to say hi would be small to negligible.
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A little splash of Santiago autumn in your winter (or summer)
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 19 July 2010
They say that a sudden cold snap gives the very best foliage leaf-peepers could ever hope for. Looking at pretty, color-changing leaves is written into my history, as crispy shufflewalking to school as a child reminded me of crunching through the first layers of spanikopita which my foodie parents introduced into our meal rotation sometime in the 70s, swearing about the drying-out phyllo optional.
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Eating an Argentine Empanada in New York
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 6 July 2010
Of all the things you could eat when wandering the streets of downtown Manhattan, whether it be a knish, a pretzel, a slice of pizza, a samosa, a soft taco dripping with salsa verde, the thing that appealed to me the most on my first day in "the city" was this.
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Chi-chi-chi, lay-lay-lay, viva Chi-lay! Santiago, Chile
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 5 July 2010
Walking through Bellavista on Monday 28th June you would never have known that it was one of Santiago’s most lively neighbourhoods. Shop windows were darkened by graffiti-covered shutters and dogs roamed freely along the empty streets, sniffing at discarded burger wrappers. Traffic lights flicked uselessly from green to red on the main road where police [...]
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A Merenjunge! (A big mix of stuff, Chile, TBEX, World Cup!)
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 25 June 2010
The first whiff of real air after airconditioned, heated, dehydrated air on an overnight flight is damp. The breeze outside of JFK smells oceany. Like I just got hit in the face with a sheet of seaweed. And not nori. Something decidedly more rank. After I get out of the car at my mother's house, it smells like green. Freshly cut spinach, maybe even sauteed in the summer heat. With sesame oil. Or maybe I'm making that part up. It's a culinary jungle out there.
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Seasonal Jetlag, and coming/going home
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 23 June 2010
It's a kind of strangely New-Yorky cold out lately in Santiago. It's crisp but not bitter, but there's a cold wind that will catch that strip of skin that shows when your shirt rides up and your pants don't sit at your waist.I was in the car with a friend recently driving up past El Golf and there were twinkly bluish lights strung through some straggly-limbed trees, on the sidewalk, all loops and disorganization and I said "Se ve como Nueva York en el invierno" (It looks like New York in winter).
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Blast from the past..
Blog: Pasándolo Chancho - 7 June 2010
I should be working but I'm not because I feel guilty about neglecting this blog for so long. And there is nothing like a dose of melancholy to fuel your procrastination. I've had this video sitting here for so long that I can't remember where I found it. Suffice to say it's full of incredible archival footage that anyone interested in Santiago should watch, if only for a glimpse of what the city was like before it got 80s-ified! Behold the heyday, 1937, of the endearingly titled land of charm!
