Plus: Decent pizza and an intro to the Atacama Desert Wednesday I signed up for one of the cultural activities my Spanish school offers because it was tour of Cementario General. My classmates, Rania and James also signed up, but warned me that the tour guide was a bit, how shall we say? ... scattered. …
Author: Susan
Susan AKA Sue, AKA Aunt Susie: I am a former journalist and teacher at semi-loose ends who is still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I am restless and determined. I love a challenge.
Things I like: photography, yoga, mountains, a great book, exploring, music.
Things I am not so keen on: standing still, gray days, coconut
Writing in Chilean Time
Oops, it's taken a bit longer to write this blog than we usually like to take, but I started Spanish school and Steven hit the ground running at work after a quiet holiday week. We were very exciting people on New Year's Eve: we binge-watched "Bad Sisters" and had a glass of wine at midnight. …
A Jewish Feliz Navidad
In Santiago, everything closes early on Christmas Eve and stays closed on Christmas, so naturally we decided to go somewhere else where everything was closed: wine country, or at least one of the many wine-making areas of Chile. We chose Colchagua Valley, mostly because there is a hotel there, Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, that had …
Hard Landing in Santiago
Today it's time for some lessons from the road: Keep track of the compromises you made Remember where the hip neighborhood is (and that you were a few minutes walk from it) Wide-angle lenses lie (which we knew but ...) Perhaps it was partly because Patagonia was so magical, but even before we got to …
Patagonia Flat
We said ciao to the end of the earth and headed to Puerto Varas, where we started with a short tour of two towns on the lake that were settled by German immigrants – Frutillar and Puerto Octay. Puerto Varas is a pretty big tourist destination and the “gateway to the lakes region of Patagonia.” …
Onward and upward (plus a bit of downward)
Friday was our last day at the Hotel Las Torres in Torres de Paine. Steven decided to take it easy, but as you know, I never decide to take it easy and so I didn't. We had a part-horseback, part-trekking all-day trip up Cerro Paine to get a different view of the Towers and because …
A Final Weekend in Buenos Aires
Yes, We're Moving On Again We've arrived at the part of the journey where we begin to say, "We still haven't done ..." At this point, we typically make a list of sites, restaurants and other attractions we have seen in our wanderings and said, "We need to go there," but haven't yet done so. …
Family Fun Time
Boy, they really know how to eat meat in Porto Alegre (Yes they do!! YUM)! Aside from that, Vitor and family went all out entertaining us and making sure there was never a dull moment. Vitor wanted to show us how beautiful the sunset is over the river Jacuí, so we went to Cais Embarcadero, …
Un blog especial para los profesores de ingles
This blog is mostly in Spanish, but you can use Google translate 🙂 It's for English teachers because it's that nameless exercise where someone writes a sentence, covers it up and passes it down the line. Here's the version TJ, another student and I created yesterday: Una noche oscura "Los adolescentes caminaban por la ciudad …
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Marco … Polo!
Since our friends Marco and Barbara graciously took us to the peña, we decided to respond in kind with a trip to a polo (one l - two ll's would make it pollo -which is chicken!) match since the Argentine Open (Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo) was starting. The polo grounds are smack in the …
Doing It On The Road 