Laineys’ Escapades

I should just say the temperatures indicated, on FindPenguins, are actually lower than the temperatures we are actually experiencing!

Today, being our last in Santiago, needed some preparation what with Visas for Rapa Nui, Boarding Cards and packing so Lainey sailed very bravely off back to Santa Lucia Hill and the National Museum of Fine Arts whilst I got on with the housekeeping, someone has to!

Lovely morning but very hot walking around. The view from the top of St Lucia Hill was worth the climb. The Fine Art Museum was an absolutely beautiful building but the art inside was rubbish. I went back to the Cathedral to try to find the museum of religious antiquities but think it must have closed down. I then returned to the hotel to take Charles for a drink who’d done a fabulous job with the paperwork. We had a drink in a street cafe, Red Bar, then a little siesta.

Fair to say the graffiti here is sometimes great but all too often spoilt by ‘nobodies’ who simply want to deface, there is quite a bit of an anti-authoritarian attitude but that’s about par for the course, especially somewhere with such a volitile history

We have a 05:45hrs transfer to Santiago Airport so an early night is an idea, we are however heading back to the Red Bar for dinner, high on our list is a traditional Chilean dish, ‘Chicken & Chips’, which, I am told, they do rather well here but actually we had the Pork Ribs and the best chips ever!Read more