Vino

A drop of the good stuff

From Valparaiso next stop was Santiago. Not the most exciting capital city we have ever visited, but pretty nice for a mooch around, shopping, parks and eating of course. I had some really great Sushi – first Japanese restaurant of the trip and it was very welcomed. And we ventured out of town a couple of times. Once to a giant shopping centre - with a Top Shop, happy days! Second outing was via a local bus to the Maipu Valley and the Undurraga vineyard for our first wine tour of the trip. No, one is not enough! Especially when a fellow wine lover (my mum) is due to visit! We drank some truly delicious wine and learnt a lot about the process, the history of the vineyard and the amount of damage this year’s 8.8 earthquake caused. Three containers holding over 100,000 litres of wine each broke and flooded the vineyard – an almost incomprehensible amount of wine.

Mmm what else? We also managed to meet up for dinner with Carlos one of the lovely Chilean’s we had met on our way to Chile from Bolivia. It was very interesting hearing about what Santiago was like to live under Pinochet’s dictatorship and how Chile is now. And we drank more wine, of course. Delicious.

Santiago's skyline