Christian Ranallo Plus3 Chile 2012: Day 6: Wine But No Water?

May 11, 2012

Hola amigos! Today has been a very interesting day, in both good ways and bad. It started off on the wrong foot as our entire building had no running water when we woke up this morning. It was a rough start to the day, as none of us got to shower or brush teeth or anything, but the day got much better as it went on. Our first stop of the day was Viña Indomita, a vineyard located in the Casablanca Valley here in central Chile. We received a really cool tour of the winery, seeing the giant vats for fermenting the young wines, and the French Oak casks for keeping the specialty wines. And the best part of the visit was at the end, when we got to have a wine tasting session with several different types of wines from Viña Indomita. The white was very good, but I was not a big fan of either of the reds. After the wine tasting, we heading down the coast to visit Isla Negra, the home of Pablo Neruda, a famous Chilean poet from the mid 1900s. Once there, we had an amazing lunch along the beach, with awesome seafood including razor clams which were delicious. After lunch we had an hour to just chill on the beach before our tour of Neruda's house, and that was actually a really fun time, as we just climbed the giant rock formations there and watched the waves. It was nice to have some time to just relax and hang out at the beach. The tour of Neruda's house was really cool also, even though it was all in Spanish, as he had filled his house with naval artifacts so that it looked like an old wooden ship. We returned to the hotel for the earliest time yet tonight, because we don't have any more dance lessons, so Nick and I went to the local gym to work out. We got in a solid workout, and after grabbing McDonalds for dinner, I'm now doing my blog for tonight before we head out to the local discotheque.

Fun fact of the day: Chileans have the self -proclaimed worst Spanish pronunciation of any Latin American country