Comme ça commencent nos journées en hiver en Europe. Heureusement à partir de cette après-midi (et un col à 1500m) la pluie donnera place au soleil. Le moral est haut, mais les chaussures d’Eva sont toujours humides.
Author: Miguel
The secret of our selfies
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Spanish twist
To travel is to learn. At least if one wishes. Something I like to learn, sometimes temporarily, is the local language and expressions. In South America, the Spanish I knew from Europe got a twist and even this afternoon when arriving at a camp site, we got asked to install ourselves and then to go cancelar in the hut. For me cancelar would always be the same as the to cancel in English, but here in Chile it means something between to register and to pay.
The other day at the restaurant, I took this photo of the menu. Some nice Latin American words we learnt last few months appear:
Ave (Chile only) – chicken/pollo; Palta – avocado/aguacate; Morrón – peppers/pimiento
Other useful food words:
Frutilla – strawberries/fresas; Durazno – peach/mélocoton; Choclo – (type of) corn/maíz
If you plan to visit South America, I truly recommend to learn Spanish before, as it increases enormously the interaction and eases a lot the trip. We are often doing the translators to other tourists here and we feel a relief from locals when they see we speak their language.
9’000 km
Today, in the North of the Chiloé island, the 9’000km milestone. It was a great day for cycling with blue sky and good temperature.
Fresh bread in Chile
It’s 18:30, smells good just in front of a bakery. We enter and say that we come because of the fresh bread.”The baker is preparing the bread for tomorrow morning, but I have these from this morning”. So no chance to get those just getting out of the oven!
In South of Chile bakeries seldom sell more than one type of bread, a flat one done with white flour, water, oil or butter and a bit of yeast and salt. But several private houses and shops also sell their own baked bread, making the bakeries not having and additional value.
And fresh bread in the morning is available only after 10:00!