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Lunch was accompanied by some crappy salad and a too-sweet, but not too bad papaya juice. My main course was the roasted goat - both Hannah and I must have had the two toughest pieces, full of tendons and chewy bits. A scalpel would have been much handier than the dull knives we were given. By the time I was done with mine, it looked like some animal carcass that a lion had half-eaten, with big chunks of flesh and tendon still attached to the bone. What few pieces of meat I was able to eat, were actually fairly tasty. The accompanying potato puree was pretty average.
Diane, on the other hand, appeared to have gotten the most tender part of the goat, because the meat just fell of the bone, which was left so clean that it would have been worthy of being on display at some Natural History museum.
Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more 
