Santiago Revisited

After five years I am back where we started our trip in South America – Santiago de Chile. It’s like I never left – I know exactly where to go and where everything is. I visited Santiago many times during that trip and coming back now feels very familiar.

Back when we first got here we went to the “Israeli” place in the city – it was, after all, our first day in a strange land and so we found ourselves checking into the Hostal Indiana. If you don’t remember it, here are a couple of pictures from back then:


The very “distinctive” yard:


And my personal favorite ;)


I was walking around the center of town and I decided to drop by the hostel and check what’s going on. I found out that it’s being closed down by the owner but everything else was as I remembered it – the yard, the rooms, even the owner’s little dogs:


I’ll be meeting JFK in a couple of days… feels like old times...