Santiago Sunset

Atardecer en Santiago desde la Terraza de mi amigo Andrés:

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Por ahora sigo editando videos muerto de sueño ZZZzzz....

Dirty dishes

Nunca podría haber fotografiado esta escena sin la ayuda de mi esposa :) "Dirty dishes"

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Increíblemente la foto original subida a Flickr ocupa el 3 lugar dentro de las favoritas de la gente.... supongo que debe ser por la genialidad del caos representada en la foto...

Valparaíso, 1 of the Top 10 cities to visit in 2010

"A charming town, where Chilean socialist Pablo Neruda hid in the late 1940s when Communism was outlawed. 2010 will mark the 40th anniversary of Chile’s first democratically-elected socialist head of state, Salvador Allende.

Valparaiso offers a fairly unique South American experience, with painted houses sitting on hills leading down to a huge bay, with old elevators taking you up and down the city's steep slopes."

Esa fue la descripción publicada por TimesOnline el pasado 25 de Noviembre en el articulo llamado "The Top 10 cities to visit in 2010".

A mi parecer una descripción demasiado política, pero que destaca a nuestro mundialmente conocido Poeta Pablo Neruda. La Sebastiana, la casa de Pablo Neruda ubicada en el Cerro Bellavista de Valparaíso, es una parada imperdible!!! Personalmente creo haber visitado este museo unas 3 veces, además de haber visitado la Chascona en Santiago y la increíble casa de Isla Negra.

Los Ascensores y las coloridas casas están repartidas por todo Valparaíso, pero lejos mi lugar favorito son los paseos y rincones de Cerros Alegre y Concepción. El paseo Atkinson, Gervasoni & Yugoslavo ofrecen una hermosa vista del la bahía de Valparaíso.

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The Brighton has a popular cafe on the first floor with two terrace patios that seem to hang over the city; it's mesmerizing and encourages you to linger long after you've finished breakfast. Este Café esta ubicado en El paseo Atkinson y su llamativo color amarillo resalta al borde del Cerro Concepción.

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Ex-prison of Valparaíso

Schloß Lichtenstein

Lo que más me gusto de mis viajes a Alemania fueron los castillos que visite, durante mi último viaje en el 2006 tuve la oportunidad de visitar Schloß Lichtenstein, típico castillo ubicado en la "punta del cerro" justo sobre un pequeño pueblo. Escribir de este castillo me trae a la memoria una historia que envié por email, historia donde relataba mi odisea por encontrar este burg (castle en alemán), la historia que originalmente fue contada por email aun se conserva en un viejo blog, el título del post era El Castillo Perdido "Schloß Lichtenstein" en el relataba mi viaje en bicicleta por más de 1 hora y luego 1 hora de caminata perdido en el bosque justo bajo el catillo.

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Hasta donde se el castillo ha tenido varios cambios pero hay registros desde aproximadamente el año 1200, esta ubicado justo sobre el pueblo Honau en el estado de Baden-Württemberg en Deutschland.

Curiosidades del Castillo

- Una enorme copa de champaña que tenía la misma altura que el Duque Wilhelm (1,93 metros), según cuenta la historia hacía falta tres botellas de Champan para llenarla y 3 hombres para berber; el primero afirmaba la copa, el segundo bebía y el tercero afirmaba al que bebía!!!

- En este Castillo se encunetran las máscara mortuorias de Napoleón I, y las màscaras de los poetas Gohete, Schiller y Uhland.

- Por último una pintura del arquero de Lichtenstein, He's the guard. No matter where you stand, he's always pointing the crossbow straight at you.

PS: Se supone que debería tratar de practicar mi inglés en este blog, pero he estado con mucho trabajo y sin tiempo por lo que este posteo será en español. Otro dato es que esta foto la tomé con mi primera cámara Canon PowerShot A410 de 3.2 mega pixels!!!

Ex-prison of Valparaíso

I arrived to Valparaíso in the same years that the prison permanently opened its cells and closed its doors (1999). The Ex-prison is located in the Cerro Cárcel of Valparaíso (Valpo), near to the olds cemeteries of the city.

Today, only to reopen as a public park and art museum, the ex-prision is in very bad condition, you can only visit the exterior, the cells and building are closed. I'm sure that this picture is the last that I can take inside of the principal building.

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The loneliness is the only friend of the rusty metal and of the walls that contain the poetry of the prisioners, the only way to be free in this place...

Lake San Isabel, open to fishing year-round

I'm very happy to have visited Colorado in 2 diferent seasons, my first time in Colorado was in winter with a "White Christmas" and the second was in summer. (I wan to visit colorado in fall, because the color of the leaves of the trees provides a beautiful landscape)

The Lake San isabel is a good place to visit and it's very close to Tyffanie's parents' house (good for me). The following picture, obviously in HDR, was taking during one of our familiar trips.

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In summer you can see a lot of people fishing in the lake, i don't like to fish (I find it boring)... but the lake is open to fishing year-round and ICE fishing is allowed!!! I find it strange and dangerous. You can see what I saw in this video:


Yes! One person making a hole in the ice in the middle of the lake!!! But the strangest thing is that this person is a friend of my father-in-law. Kevin (mi suegro) always has friends in the strangest places...

Seattle from the Ferry

Before to my trip to seattle, a lot of people said "Seattle is the most rainy city on the world!!", that is the reason that Seattle is also referred to informally as "Rain City". I stayed 6 days and only 3 days with rain!!! It is weird considering Seattle as city of the rain, but googleando I could see that this city is not the most rainy, but almost always is cloudy and the rain of Seattle is more like a drizzle...

This picture was taken from the Ferry, when I was traveling to visit Dana's mother, (Dana is the girlfriend of my nephew Alexis).

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If you are visiting Seattle you can not miss the first Starbucks, Pike Place Market, the famous "Space Needle" and of course take the ferry to Bainbridge Island and go back in the last Ferry like at 11:35 PM. It is so beautiful to see Seattle's lights reflecting in the water while the wind brushes your face in the front of the ferry.

P.S.:The picture was taken with my old camera Canon Powershot S5.

Titanium La Portada, the tallest building of Santiago Chile

The Titanium La Portada Tower with 181 metres and 52 floors is the tallest building of Santiago Chile.

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The Tower is located in among five important avenues of las Condes district: Vitacura, El Bosque, Isidora

Goyenechea, Costanera Andrés Bello and Presidente Riesco.

The Building is one of Chile's most advanced technological piece of architecture,designed according to the guidelines proposed by the Unites States Green Building Council for open-space floor office buildings.