7:51 pm, 17 June 2017, Santiago It’s said that when you move to a new country, there’s a honeymoon phase. Everything in the new place is, to you, exciting, different, and often magical. This will, however, at some point, be followed by phase 2: Reality. My honeymoon phase in Santiago is over. It began rainingContinue reading “The rain kills my “honeymoon” in #Satiago #Chile”
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Photos from #Chile : #FOOD
Photos from #Chile : #Andes Mountains.
My flatmate Ileana, from Mexico, and her best friend in Chile, Hector, invited me to go on a day trip to the Andes on Saturday. YES.
Photos from #Chile : #Bellavista , #Santiago
If you go to Baquedano Metro station, then cross the river, you’ll find yourself in Bellavista. I haven’t captioned any of these: what could I say except that they’re beautiful!
Photos of #Chile : Cerro Santa Lucia, the most beautiful park I’ve ever seen.
Maybe one day I’ll have enough Spanish to adequately describe this place. Charles Darwin gave it the high praise of “certainly most striking.”
Vancouver, British Columbia
To get my work visa for Chile, I had to visit one of the country’s consulates in Canada…and there isn’t one in Alberta. The nearest one is in Vancouver, British Columbia. I have two cousins, neither of whom I’ve seen in years (because I’ve been in China, they live in Vancouver and Toronto, and I’veContinue reading “Vancouver, British Columbia”
LAST photos from China.
Here are the last of the photos from my 18-month-stint in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China. NEXT: Chile!
Kabuki Theatre and Oiwa #theatre
I am a theatre junkie. Kabuki is at least as old as Shakespeare. It’s one of THE drama traditions I heard about as soon as I decided theatre was my life. Going to a kabuki play was on my must-do list while I was in Tokyo, but it was also felt, for me, like goingContinue reading “Kabuki Theatre and Oiwa #theatre”
Photos of #Japan : #Asakusa , #Tokyo
Asakusa is the neighbourhood where I stayed, still very much Tokyo, but quiet and hip. It’s where I had the best burger, doughnut, and sushi of my life (so far).
Photos of #Japan : The East #Imperial Gardens, #Tokyo
The East Gardens of the Imperial Palace of Japan…distinct from THE Imperial Gardens because those are immediately around the current Palace, and are off-limits. And what you do get to see is utterly magnificent, and huge — I was there nearly three hours and didn’t see everything.
