September 2011
2 posts
Two Foreigners loose in Santiago During the...
This past weekend Tom and I celebrated our first Chilean Holiday, and my was it a BIG holiday! Dieciocho (eighteen in Spanish) is the day traditionally heralded as Chilean independence from Spain. It is celebrated on the 18th of September every year, which is actually the start of their war for independence. Technically the war didn’t end until 1826, when the last Spanish troops...
We Put the "Fun" in Funicular
That’s right! It’s another funicular fiasco :)
As far as I can tell funiculars are pretty popular down here in Chile. Which is fun for Tom and not so fun for me. I think it’s the fact that I can’t quite conceptualize how two cars could counterbalance each other so perfectly that they would be capable of pulling a group of people up and down a steep and very long incline....
