Monday, 16 September 2013

Valpo (as the locals call it)

After breakfast, we headed down to the port to do a walking tour.
Run by a mob called Tours 4 Tips, they give you a 3 hour tour with the guide identified by a Where's Wally shirt and you pay whatever you think it was worth.
Our guide was a 22yo girl from San Francisco who had studied in Valpo for 12 months and then stayed on.
Today was Sunday and also Heritage Day in Valpo, so a few museums that were not usually open to the public were open and freeof charge, so the guide took advantage of this.
We looked through the Naval headquarters down near the port and also had a trolley bus ride. The electric trolley buses have been in Valpo since the 1930's imported from the US and Switzerland. Very retro!





At one point on the tour we stopped, literally someone's house, and bought an empanada (pasty) and a sweet treat, similar to a Wagon Wheel - very tasty. The tour was great, mainly because we walked around the more arty parts of town, and also that the sun had finally made an appearance.







Met up with the Camerons afterwards and walked around the streets of Concepcion looking at galleries and shops. Played cards in the afternoon and then dinner at a restaurant with fabulous views in Bellavista Hill, finishing with a final drink and toast to a fabulous trip together


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