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Published: August 9th 2015
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Another cold and wet day. More rain, really pummeling down, pretty much all day.
We started by going to the theater again. Yesterday, we saw an ad for a movie called
Los 33, which is about the Chilean miners who were trapped for 3 months a couple years ago, and we thought it would be particularly cool to see it in Chile. It also doesn’t come out in the US until November, but it’s released today here. But strangely (to us), movie theaters here have assigned seats, so we went to get our tickets early so we weren’t stuck up front like yesterday.
After picking those up, we went to the Central Market, which is a big fish market that also has a lot of restaurants with the MOST aggressive “greeters” you will ever find. We’d walk through and they would block our way to try to funnel us in, people would walk all the way across the market beelining for us holding up two fingers to ask if we wanted a table for two, they would shove menus in our faces, and they would just yell (or speak loudly) at us to ask if we wanted lunch. It
Plaza de Monedas
Originally the treasury, it's now Chile's presidential palace was both hilarious and slightly annoying. But once you waded through the crummy tourist trap ones out front, we found some great ramshackle places out back with slightly less aggressive hosts and wonderfully cheap pricing. Cash only, probably no safety standards, and not even printed checks, but the best seafood soup I’ve ever eaten.
After the market, we made our way to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, or, directly translated, the National Museum of Pretty Arts. I assume they mean Fine, as, like with many languages, phrasings can change and be strange through direct translations. Unlike the MFA, it doesn’t have a lot of permanent exhibitions, nor is it huge or have anything particularly famous in it. It’s mostly local or domestic artists, but it was a very neat place to visit. We covered the entire thing, and its sister, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, in about 2 hours. But there were exhibits on everything from ideology to geography to watercolor, along with some funky photography in the MAC. It is one of the most famous museums in Chile, and it’s free and was relatively empty and relatively dry from outside (but strangely enough, not entirely. The roof in the great hall leaked a bit).
We then went back to dry off and so Serena could nap before heading off to the cinema again.
Los 33 was actually fantastic and I strongly recommend you all keep it in mind when it comes out in November (it is in English, which was funny to think about here).
After that, we went home and streamed the GOP debate from Ohio, which was a spectacle in and of itself. And, after two days of cold and wet, tomorrow we get to go to Iguazú, in the north of Argentina, where the forecast is 85º and sunny every day. If you insist!
NB: Pictures will go up soon. Keep an eye out
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