somewhere in the valley

For my vacations of fiestas patrias I went to Vicuña, the town where I lived the past 5 years (before coming to Santiago this year). We traveled by bus with my girlfriend, and the prices were pretty high because we left the city on Friday 15th. When we arrived to Vicuña, I felt the difference of the air. It was a fresh mor I was very excited for the "Pampilla" when i arrived to Vicuña (a place where people meet for Fiestras Patrias, with a lot of fondas), but in the end the place changed a lot so i was a little bit deceived. The municipality decided to put cement roads and to be honest they were not well designed, because they were too narow for the hundred of people that went to that place. I just went one day to pampilla, and I think I enjoyed more being with my old friends at the park or near the river drinking a beer. I also spent time with my parents, one day we went to the house of one of their friends and we had a good time eating together and sharing. When i w...

Last weekend i went to Cajón del Maipo with my girlfriend and my mother. I got up early on Saturday morning, and we went to Baquedano station with my mom, where we met my girlfriend who was waiting for us. We traveled  by metro to a bus station located in the south of Santiago, and it wasn't easy to find the bus station because we had never traveled to Cajon del Maipo before.   When we were on our way to the first village, we were impressed by the greenery of the place. It reminded me to the south of Chile, the sky was grey and it was very cold.  After we visited San José de Maipo, me and my girlfriend travelled by bus following the route in direction to the chain of mountains. While my mother stood in the square of San José de Maipo, we were at 25 km to the east of San José, where we visited a long and dark tunnel (600 meters) and we took pictures of the landscape.  When we came back, we met my mother at the square and took the bus back to Santi...