Last week my daughter Abi came to stay for a few days. She spent the prior weekend in Mexico City for work and visiting with some friends. Once all the fun had ended, she came over to our place and stayed with us. She lives in London, so we don’t get to see her that …
The worst laid plans
You may know that we walk. A LOT. And when we walk, we pass restaurants and other places and we say, "We should go there," and then when we want a place to go, we have forgotten every one of them. No worries, we figure, we will just walk the way we walk and a …
European Castle in the Sky
Last weekend we decided to explore the city a bit. We started Saturday morning by going to the gym and following that, we ate desayuno (breakfast) at a little café down the street. We both had chilaquiles, which for those of you who don’t know, is basically breakfast nachos. Corn chips with salsa, and then …
Back in the USA (for a few days)
OMG! If I haven't already bragged about my very sweet husband, here goes: He surprised me with tickets to Houston to see my family and Bruuuuuuuuce!(for those of you who do not know, that is Bruce Springsteen). What a fab Valentine's present from someone who doesn't do Hallmark holidays. We left CDMX on Saturday morning. …
Routine, what’s that?
Four switches among many on the walls in our apartment: What do they operate? First off: We are loving CDMX. It's vibrant. The food everywhere (on the street, in the fondas -- or little stall restaurants -- in the storefront spots, and even at the mercado) is excellent, and the people are nice. We decided …
Ciao Santiago, Hola CDMX
Plus: A Visit to the Dentist in STGO and From Summer to Winter in 8 Hours While we never say we regret being in a place (mostly because we don't), we were ready to leave Santiago. We've also mentioned why: It's a little rundown and a little too quiet for us, although the people are …
Géisers for Geezers
Saturday we once again started late. This time, our tour started at 2:30pm and we headed to the salt flats about 30 minutes outside of San Pedro. Our first stop was Laguna Cejar, a saltwater pond. The name laguna translates to lagoon, which to me (and Merriam Webster), is “a shallow sound, channel, or pond …
Dead Person Bingo sin Steven
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. …
One last weekend in Santiago
This was our last weekend in Santiago, while we are here for nearly two more weeks, next weekend we are heading to the Atacama desert, and then we leave the following Saturday for Mexico City. Friday night we joined two of Sue's school friends, James and Rania (friends from where she is taking Spanish, not …
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. …
Doing It On The Road 