I took Richard to Bella Vista, the same place I had toured last week. Bella Vista is the "hot spot" of Santiago by night, but by day it's shops and restaurants and people on the streets. Lots of wares displayed on the street on blankets- things from bottles of nail polish to hash pipes. Very diverse. We turned into the better open mall area and shopped there for a while. This place is more high end Chilean items, with numerous restaurants that turn into bars and nighclubs in the evening. Richard found an Irish Bar and had a wee dram of the Irish Whiskey to quench his thirst, and I had some kind of Chilean beer that was very cold and good. We tried to tour Pablo Neruda's house, but there were just too many people. Also, too many people at the zoo, but we did SMELL it from very far away. It was a cool day. I can't image what the smell is like on a warm day. We did end up taking a tour on the funicular, or cable car, up the mountain to the Statue of the Virgin Mary. I thought we'd probably die sliding down that mountain, but we made it just fine. Just one cable! That's about two too few for my likes!
Read about Pablo here.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-bio.html
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