$2.5 million chivito restaurant opens in Buenos Aires; best thing to happen there in recent memory »
mmm, chivitos…
(Source: paulbrady)
Just outside the borehole, a reporter asked Marcela Zúñiga, a nurse, when the miners would receive their first empanadas, a popular Chilean pastry usually stuffed with meat. “Those are being prepared by a special team in Santiago,” Ms. Zúñiga said.
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Facing Long Mine Rescue, Chile Spares No Expense (via NYT) Special emergency empanada-making teams at the ready in the capital? How could you not love Chile? |
Vivimos un infierno, fue una noche de horror.
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| — | Veronica, my Chilean host mother, describing the experience of last weekend’s earthquake from Santiago (200 miles north of the epicenter). |
ruta de evacuación tsunami. (via matt.hintsa)
Taken in Penco, Chile in September 2008. Penco is about 70 miles south of the epicenter of last night’s earthquake.
2010_02_27-24-Edit (via Sergio Recabarren)
The aftermath of the Chilean earthquake as seen in a Santiago kitchen, 200 miles away from the epicenter.
Pensando en mis amigos chilenos…
The Spanish introduced cattle to Uruguay more than 400 years ago, and beef has long been its most important export industry. Cows outnumber people more than three to one in this country of 3.4 million, where about 80 percent of the land is used for cattle grazing.
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Believe. (via paulbrady) This just reminded me: A year ago tonight I was sitting at a restaurant in Montevideo eating…Uruguayan beef. mmmm. |
Very few tourists die on the road,’’ its owner, Tamara Ullrich, told us. “Of course, there was that family of four who went over the edge last year …’’
Sunset (via cluster fotos)
Check out this guy’s photos; he does an impressive job capturing Chile’s beauty. This one brings back memories of looking out of my bedroom window at the cordillera lit up by the setting sun.
