hola santiago! no one could ever fall out with this little city of heritage and stories! it's so beautiful and you could tell how much $$$ the local gov makes! you cant mistake their university campus and the number of hotels on offer! weird enough every hoteliers would take you for a free tour of their rooms and 'give you a special rate'. bunni has simply inherited the gene for bargaining... we got an OK deal for a boutique hotel and it's rated no.1 on tripadvisor! the decor and ambience were immaculate. we even had our own private patio, free wifi, CNN news and breakfast was excellent!
we got a *free ride* on the tour tram to see the cathedral and uni etc. and indulged ourselves with a glass of white at another hotel's terrace bar which overlooked the downtown. pretty amazing except the whole thing was ruined by this busker. if only i could stuff all the little olive stones into his stupid pipe!!!!
there's this street full of restaurants like HK - with a big fish tank to display/ show off fresh fish and lobsters and of course goose barnacles. we checked into this tapas bar and after 2 glasses of wine bunni's getting a bit.. hyper.... we continued our search in this wine bar O Beiro. the sommelier (is he one... hmmm...) recommended this local produce from Ribeiro - something similar to Sancere. gosh that was heaven!!!! and soon... bunni was too hysterical she was forced to down a strong coffee to calm herself down before making herself an extra fool/ disgrace...
the next day we took a short trip to a nearby fishing village. every backyard houses a small wooden hut and only later did bunni find out this's for storage not for smoking jamon =}
oh and it's santiago where baby fell in love with clams and cockles - without the smallest grain of sand.
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