Food and Art and Events

 

Pics mostly taken by THB

Restaurants, Food, and Wine

Lunch at Patricia Ready Gallery (Santiago), someone else was also taking pics of this loaf. Note: Patricia Ready Gallery pics and comments are repeat of Day 3 post months ago)

and on the table

Fish on polenta, excellent

Chicken salad, also great

Boca Nariz (Santiago): we ate here in 2013! Biz is up, a big parklet in front (also a repeat from Day 3 post)

Famous for their wine selection

Note the tag on the wine glass, only way for servers to know what the wine is

the wine list! needless to say, THB forgot to bring his binocs

Lamb shank, baked not grilled as the English translatiion said...or fish?

buskers rotate among the parklets

THB thinks this is the room that we dined in 2013 with SBB, AB, PS, MM

After dinner, back at the Singular, this "snack" was awaiting us. It was 10pm and we had an early transfer to the airport. The desk called a bit after 10pm and asked if there was anything else he could and THB suggested that no more calls tonight would be appreciated

Punta Arenas: we are being put up in an "equivalent" hotel, the Almasur, for the night. Our flight to King George Island is the next morning. The complication: weather has kept the cruise before ours from taking the plane flights (and their cruise ended up being cancelled) and the decent hotel in town was full of frustrated cruisers. DB and SA head out to do some shopping, THB and DA head to the nearly empty Almasur dining room for  late lunch. It is the waiters first day! We order Chciken Caesar Salads. 

Here it is: a chicken breast

And two Chicken Ceasar salads

We are walking the town and stop for a 5pm snack at Tariz, a place reco'd by DB's bro

Panini's the size of medium pizzas, or a squished calzone

We are in the bar at the Singular Hotel in Puerto Natales after somehow making it back from Andactica. The hotel is lovely, nothing like the Singular in Santiago. A pisco sour? Slushy? GOOD!

Salmon on sour cream appetizer: very good

The only beer on tap on the entire trip, in a small  town off the 6 hour gravel road to Patagonia National Park

Easily the best pastry on our trip: a croissant at the Patagonia National Park Explora Hotel

Wine tasting with neephew BH in the wine region near Santiago

When you are wine shoping (say in a supermarket) and you wonder where the wine was made, flip over the bottle and look at the back label: it will say who produced the wine

A great appetizer at the Casa de Bosque Winery restaurant

Art from here, there, and anywhere

Jim Melchert tile pied at SFO

Yayoi Kusama, SFO 

This was supposed to be an art day, we had a drivr and a guide. The guide was a last minute substitue, and knew nothing abou our itinerary and nothing about art. Not a good combo. He started us on a city tour. After about 45 minutes we cut that short and went on a journey to see art. After making the driver pull over and having to use the masculine voice, the guide finally got us to where we wanted to be:

 Patricia Ready Gallery

Gonzalo Pedraza Cantaros: these are made of cardboard and paper and meant to be destroyed if not sold

Andrea Leria: DB and THB bought the 16 piece work. Media: Oleo y resina sobre tablero de fibra Polipitio (translation: margarine and resin over tables of fiber and small polyps)

THB and DB bought Small Girl, made by a Venezuelan artist now living in Chile. Constructed out of .discarded clothes that Venezuelan immigrants leave behind behind when fleeing the bankfrupt Venezuela economy. 

Art made of Crin - aka horse hair. DB brought one back for someone she knows in Monterey

THB loved this picture, actually 3D because those are real slats of wood. It's very big, and DB and THB had to return to Bay Area and find a space for it before deciding to purchase it. Artist is Felipe Cusicanquil, titled Persons en las rocas 2014

Murals of Punta Arenas

While window shopping, THB spotted shoes for the twins (they love to wear one shoe each of two different pairs)

zodiac speeding away on excursion

Handwarmers saved THB on this trip, a lesson learned on the 2018 Antarctica trip; they work extremely well and all you have to is shake them a little, insert them in your gloves, and squeezer periodically

Where was THB on Whistle Pig Day?

At the tip of one of the pink arrow post-it notes...

Our ship was not the only one in Antarctic Archipelago

Note THB's pc is coming apart. Weeks later, THB has not taken it to be repaired, DB has ordered a  replacement, due in early March

View of two zodiacs loading up cruisers at same time, two lines forming in the mud room to board

Special dessert plate on Whistle Pig Day

Another ship spotted at Deception Island

Near KG Island airport...the arrival/departure area is getting crowded

The Singular in Puerto Natales, former cold storage facility for butchering and storing lamb in early 1900s. this is a pic of the street level "garage"

A short funicular ride down to the hotel  from the "garage" 

A chair made of old radiators, very comfortable

Our room is long with great views

place mats in bar

Yep, it was snowing in the middle of the Chilean summer. This is near Patagonia National Park, THB and DB are on the 6 hour dirt/gravel road drive to fly out to Santiago