Date: 20231025
Time: 11:05 – 17:40
Distance: 15,9 km (+ 2,9 km metro)
Overnight stay: Hotel Casa Zañartu, Santiago de Chile
Walk
After having a good night sleep, we first have breakfast in our hotel. After breakfast, Sandy is joining us and since today we have a full day in Santiago, Sandy is going to show us the city.
First we walk to the Palacio de la Moneda, the seat of the President of the Republic of Chile. We also were here yesterday and now I know why there is so much police in this area. In front of the palacio there is a huge flag of Chile at the beginning of Paseo Bulnes, a nice street were you can buy a lot of stuff at small stalls. This is also the street where the beer café is where Ada and I ended up last evening.
The traffic lights for pedestrians work almost in the same way as at home, red means you have to watch out yourself and if there is no traffic, just cross the street. However, green is a little more tricky. If it turns green, it is dangerous. There might still be traffic that passes with high speed, including busses. They probably tried to catch the orange light and got the dark orange one…
We walk through the city and reach the faculty of natural sciences. They have a very modern building and Sandy arranges that we can go inside, after we have registered with our passports. In the basement they have a lot of sport facilities, including among others basketball, squash, judo, tennis and even a swimming pool.
Just around the corner is Parque O’Higgins. In one corner of the park there is Fantasilandia, the biggest amusement park of Chile. Here we also find the Movistar Arena, one of the locations were currently the Juegos Panamericanos are held, the Olympics for the American continents.
Sandy has a location planned to have lunch and we take the metro from Parque O’Higgins to Santa Isabel to get there. We are now in Barrio Italia and we walk to Av. Italia where there are plenty of small bars and restaurants. The first place where we sit down has no beer. That’s no good, so we walk a little further to Malacria. Here we have a very good lunch and I can enjoy a good beer with it.
After lunch we continue in to the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, the faculty where Sandy studies. We get a tour of the faculty and have drink at the cafeteria. Ada has walked enough for today, so we split up. Ada and Sandy go back to our hotel, using the metro. I walk back with a small detour along the river.
Weather
The weather was very good, sunny with some clouds now and then. In the sun it was rather warm, but sometimes we got a welcome breeze.
Songtext of the day
Everybody talks Spanish here and we made a nice stroll today, so here is Spanish Stroll by Mink DeVille.
Hey, Mr. Jim, I can see the shape you’re in
Finger on your eyebrow
And left hand on your hip
Thinking that you’re such a lady k**er
Think you’re so slick!
Alright
Brother Johnny, he caught a plane and he got on it
Now he’s a razor in the wind
And he got a pistol in his pocket
They say the man is crazy on the West Coast
Lord, there ain’t no doubt about it
Well, alright
Sister Sue, tell me, baby, what are we gonna do
She said take two candles
And then you burn them out
Make a paper boat, light it and send it out
Send it out now
Spanish Stroll
Spanish Stroll
Spanish Stroll
Hey, Rosita! Donde vas con mi carro Rosita?
Tu sabes que te quiero
Pero ti me quitas todo
Ya te robasta mi television y mi radio
Y ahora quiere llevarse mi carro
No me haga asi, rosita
Ven aqui
Ehi, estese aqui al lado rosita
Spanish Stroll
Mira aqui!
Hey Johny! Yeah, Tenth Street Johny
We’ve been looking for you, man
Everybody told me you had moved uptown
Hey, you wanna go for a ride?
I’m going uptown myself
For what?
Yeah, ain’t it right?
Yeah, one time for Tito Puente, one time
Are you ready?
Yeah, of course we cannot leave out, Mr Ray Baretto
Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready?
