January 13 - Santiago to San Antonio (Valparaiso)
Slept very well last night. Got to bed close to midnight!! We went to a WONDERFUL local restaurant where the menu is mainly a tasting menu. Lots of different flavors created with local foods fashioned in traditional (ancestral) ways, yet served in a delightful new way - go figure!
We tried two different wines made locally. Both delicious, though I preferred the first. The second was decidedly better once we got to the entrees of our meal.
. . . and here are photos of our beautiful meal!
Though the walk to the restaurant was to be a thirteen minute jaunt, think we took an incorrect turn and had a lovely tour of local neighborhoods. Didn't have on the best shoes, so now have blisters on all my toes. It's comfy shoes for me this day.
Though the food and wine were awesome, will always remember us sitting there in the afterglow of the lovely meal when there was suddenly a clatter as the waitress removed our trays, and next thing I knew the delicious red wine from Sandi's glass was splattered all over my WHITE scarf and light blue sweater. The waitress immediately suggested white wine to remove the red stains, but I demurred and asked for soda. Got the worst of it off, but the sweater I thought would certainly be ruined. The stains removed easily from my white scarf.
Once back at the hotel decided to go ahead and soak the sweater in cold water. With a delicate scrubbing on the stains, did remove most of the red wine. Then rolled the sweater into a huge bath sheet, walked on the roll to remove most of the excess moisture, hung the sweater in the closet and hoped it would be wearable for the trip. Next morning, found that the sweater was looking pretty good!
We found when reviewing the bill, that the restaurant did comp one bottle of our wine. That was really nice. Apologies were never ending - experience was just a part of being out in the world - it's a dangerous place!!!!
We tried two different wines made locally. Both delicious, though I preferred the first. The second was decidedly better once we got to the entrees of our meal.
. . . and here are photos of our beautiful meal!
Though the walk to the restaurant was to be a thirteen minute jaunt, think we took an incorrect turn and had a lovely tour of local neighborhoods. Didn't have on the best shoes, so now have blisters on all my toes. It's comfy shoes for me this day.
Though the food and wine were awesome, will always remember us sitting there in the afterglow of the lovely meal when there was suddenly a clatter as the waitress removed our trays, and next thing I knew the delicious red wine from Sandi's glass was splattered all over my WHITE scarf and light blue sweater. The waitress immediately suggested white wine to remove the red stains, but I demurred and asked for soda. Got the worst of it off, but the sweater I thought would certainly be ruined. The stains removed easily from my white scarf.
Once back at the hotel decided to go ahead and soak the sweater in cold water. With a delicate scrubbing on the stains, did remove most of the red wine. Then rolled the sweater into a huge bath sheet, walked on the roll to remove most of the excess moisture, hung the sweater in the closet and hoped it would be wearable for the trip. Next morning, found that the sweater was looking pretty good!
We found when reviewing the bill, that the restaurant did comp one bottle of our wine. That was really nice. Apologies were never ending - experience was just a part of being out in the world - it's a dangerous place!!!!
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