Sunday, September 28, 2003
I went climbing in the vicinity of Cerro Manquehue today with Heidi, a Harvard Med student working a couple hours south of Santiago. We were a little fuzzy on how to get there, but when we got to where the metrobus driver pointed, a man I think working for the micros there told us, no its pretty but dangerous- but we started climbing anyway (sadly enough, he was talking to me in sort of English despite me talking to him in spanish. when Heidi came back over he goes to her, you speak more spanish, right? despite the fact neither of us had really actually said enough to judge this. despite the fact we´re both equal. it made me sad:-(
It was pretty, if really steep- orange flowers everywhere, and the smoggy city far below. Hill is a bit of an understatement, though compared to the Andes! But the cerros seem to be somewhat contiguous, with San Cristobal and Santa Lucia in the city the westermost ones. The city itself runs up against them, and spreads around a bit on the northern side too. After an exhausting two hours up, we crept/slid/walked down, and celebrated with juices at Jugomania in Las Condes and a trip to the supermarket there.
The peanut butter deal: The Tobalaba Unimarc is a rather large supermercado, and sure enough, they did have peanut butter. A normal size jar, Parade brand- 4000 pesos. Thats about 6.50 (and word has it from an American, not that good). Theres also Planters brand, but thats like 3 dollars for half the size! This in a city where there are nut venders (Nuts4Nuts actually- they look like they popped in from New York or something) on every other corner.
It was pretty, if really steep- orange flowers everywhere, and the smoggy city far below. Hill is a bit of an understatement, though compared to the Andes! But the cerros seem to be somewhat contiguous, with San Cristobal and Santa Lucia in the city the westermost ones. The city itself runs up against them, and spreads around a bit on the northern side too. After an exhausting two hours up, we crept/slid/walked down, and celebrated with juices at Jugomania in Las Condes and a trip to the supermarket there.
The peanut butter deal: The Tobalaba Unimarc is a rather large supermercado, and sure enough, they did have peanut butter. A normal size jar, Parade brand- 4000 pesos. Thats about 6.50 (and word has it from an American, not that good). Theres also Planters brand, but thats like 3 dollars for half the size! This in a city where there are nut venders (Nuts4Nuts actually- they look like they popped in from New York or something) on every other corner.
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