So we have not posted in a week or so but have been very busy!!
We got the 24, yes 24 hours bus from San Pedro De Atacama in the far north of Chile to Santiago, so that's not even half way down this country....It's crazy!
When we arrived in Santiago we were greeted by 28 degrees and very hot :-) Plus all the luxuries of a first world country (we have been 3 months in 3rd world countries now). So we spent a day seeing the sights and exploring the city.
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| One of the many parks with gorgeous fountains! |
Now, Santiago is the wine capital of Chile and until the city started sprawling most of the area was vineyards. Wine in Santiago is very cheap, most bottles are around £2 - $4 obviously you can spend a lot more if you want. So you can imagine we went wine crazy!!
Our first task in Santiago was to visit a winery, we chose the winery Udurraga. It is set in very old grounds as the winery has been there for many years. But unfortunately several earthquakes over the years have lead to devastating losses in terms of millions of gallons of wine and infrastructure.
The winery is huge and covers from the city limits to the foot of the Andes mountains, we enjoyed a few small glasses of wine and headed back to Santiago. We then proceeded to pick a selection of wines from the supermarket and taste several bottles more....over a course of 4 days.
23rd-24th October
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| This is a collage of grafitti that James put together |
When we arrived back in to Santiago James unfortunately dropped the camera which proceeded to refuse to turn on...ooopss
So the entire next day saw James running around Santigo trying to find a new camera so lets see how the pictures are after this blog post... We got in the end another Panasonic Lumix TS8 or in European TZ18 apparently! OUCH!!!!
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