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Christmas in Chile
2011-12-27 15:12Bit of a token update. I'm down in Chile again with G&S and kids. Having fun but I'm not going to go into detail about playing with kids. Let's see what randomly comes to mind.
Atlanta airport waiting area: there's what looks like a quilt, saying "wherein his gift is greatest -
Propertius" in color against a whitish background. It turns out to be made of business cards.
Flew down on Delta, which had a seat upgrade to economy plus. G says the airlines that go from California to Chile don't, affecting his parents.
Delta also seemed to have advertising before take off, though I managed to ignore it.
Free meal came with free wine, but plastic forks, and $2 if you wanted an extra snack like M&Ms.
G says LAN plans have one fewer rows, so a bit more legroom. Might explain some of the higher price.
The family here seems a lot better at winning Pandemic than any other group I've played with.
S made turkey where the breast didn't suck. Was good, even. *shock* Might be pre-marinating or -brining by the store.
On a walk I stopped and watched coletivos go by every couple minutes. They're a form of public transit here, though I don't know if they're officially public. Basically fixed route taxis, cars going around and around and stopping to pick up people who look like they want a ride. I didn't time it exactly but it did feel like every couple minutes; the bigger buses (microbus, maybe) were 5 or 10. 3 passenger seats * 30 times an hour = 90 passenger bandwidth. 120 if 4 seats. Compare to 900 theoretical for single-passenger vehicles, or 240 for 40-seat buses 6x an hour. But La Serena isn't that dense I think, most buildings are single-story, apart from the booming towers on the beach as people decide two 9.x quakes in 40 years in Concepcion is enough and move up here.
We went to a restaurant a few days ago, and I had paella de valencia. The core paella (yellow rice and a new form of scallops and ok chicken) was pretty good, I was less thrilled by the seafood bits on the outside: crab claws without much flavor, okay mussels, clams or oyster I'm not sure which. Table bread and pebre was good, pebre being like a spicy pico de gallo, and one of the few spicy foods in Chile.
Atlanta airport waiting area: there's what looks like a quilt, saying "wherein his gift is greatest -
Propertius" in color against a whitish background. It turns out to be made of business cards.
Flew down on Delta, which had a seat upgrade to economy plus. G says the airlines that go from California to Chile don't, affecting his parents.
Delta also seemed to have advertising before take off, though I managed to ignore it.
Free meal came with free wine, but plastic forks, and $2 if you wanted an extra snack like M&Ms.
G says LAN plans have one fewer rows, so a bit more legroom. Might explain some of the higher price.
The family here seems a lot better at winning Pandemic than any other group I've played with.
S made turkey where the breast didn't suck. Was good, even. *shock* Might be pre-marinating or -brining by the store.
On a walk I stopped and watched coletivos go by every couple minutes. They're a form of public transit here, though I don't know if they're officially public. Basically fixed route taxis, cars going around and around and stopping to pick up people who look like they want a ride. I didn't time it exactly but it did feel like every couple minutes; the bigger buses (microbus, maybe) were 5 or 10. 3 passenger seats * 30 times an hour = 90 passenger bandwidth. 120 if 4 seats. Compare to 900 theoretical for single-passenger vehicles, or 240 for 40-seat buses 6x an hour. But La Serena isn't that dense I think, most buildings are single-story, apart from the booming towers on the beach as people decide two 9.x quakes in 40 years in Concepcion is enough and move up here.
We went to a restaurant a few days ago, and I had paella de valencia. The core paella (yellow rice and a new form of scallops and ok chicken) was pretty good, I was less thrilled by the seafood bits on the outside: crab claws without much flavor, okay mussels, clams or oyster I'm not sure which. Table bread and pebre was good, pebre being like a spicy pico de gallo, and one of the few spicy foods in Chile.