El Lobo Marinos

This is a better shot of the Lobo Marinos.

For more videos of them and the fish market go to our flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35932421@N05/

Chilean Sanitation

Our resaurant has been forced to meet Chilean Health Code regulations.

no joke.

A Sunny Valdivia

For a place that has a reputation of being cold and rainy during the winter, which it has proved itself to be. It has been remarkably beautiful the past three to four days. We even went to the beach yesterday. Mind you it wasn't bikini weather, but the sun was wonderful to be in. The locals say it is supposed to stay this way for the rest of the week.

When it is nice like this we jump to our feet and explore the city. Making sure to always stop and watch the lobo marinos sun bathing. In our opinion there is no animal more peaceful than this.

The fleeting cold

*A few days ago we bought an umbrella, it doesn´t really work with wind.
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So this is winter in Patagonia. I often ponder as it pours refrigerated water outside for 3 straight days, then burst with toaster oven sunlight on the fourth.

I wonder how one night can be so cold that no fireplace can flame enough to de-thaw your extremities, while another finds you in only a T shirt and underwear as you comfortably type a blog at 2 o'clock in the morning.

Is this weather truly as indecisive as I am?

Maybe it just has so many passions that it can't decide which is best.
Maybe it has a well developed idea of what it is, but has an addiction to "questioning".
Maybe it thinks that seasons limit our actual being and weather is simply a state of consciousness.
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- Jameson

The Resto Bar

The Outside

Inside

The Bar

walkway to bathrooms

Where we spend our time

Trotamundos!

The cooks

The Product

The owners: Jana & Mathi

Yummy!