After being introduced to the new members of the travel group, we started our next portion of the trip from Santiago to La Paz. Ale is our tour leader again and that is great news. She has been such a lovely leader and so helpful, I just love her. We had her since my SA trip started in Rio. Rio to Buenos Aires and then from Buenos Aires to Santiago, her leadership has been amazing and I am very happy to have her until La Paz. I have made pretty good friends with Stephanie my new roomy whom I met at Santiago. She is on a year long sabbatical and worked for a worldwide charity organization in Dublin. Guess what, we came to know in 3-4th day of knowing each other that we both share the same birthday. That is so strange but we do have a lot of similarities and truly, she has been the easiest person to travel with so far, no doubt that I am easy to travel with as well:) Margaret and Helen are the other two new ones that I have been good friends with. Helen is from England and Margaret from South Africa, although Margaret is originally from Ireland. Both of them are quite unique as personality and it makes our team very interesting. We often had food together as a small team rather than joining the big team always and that way we really became good friends throughout this journey. There is nothing too special about La Serena as a place. The town is small, has few churches and the roads are under construction, not all of them though! The main square is kind of cute and easy to walk around. The small cafes are quite nice although we were there in a weekend and it seems most things are closed then. The food on first night was not that great but was expensive. We managed to get some good Chinese food in the next evening although it was pricy as well but tasted really good. I bought a pair of sketchers shoes as I realized that I have no other pair than my sneakers for evenings. Steph and I planned for going to a Jazz club but unfortunately, it was never open in several days, so it was a pure bluff. The night before after the team dinner, Steph and I went to a local pub and had drinks, I had pisco sour (so strong, I only had few sips!, Steph had to help me out). It was good fun and the crowd was so weird but we had a good laugh and we talked about life in general and our own life a lot, basically, two women opening up themselves to each other and sharing good and bad times of life! It was a good way of building trust of friendship in each other.
There was a small beach in this town and so we went down to the beach one of the mornings. It was not a very clean beach but the sun was nice and we took a nice walk up there. We found a shwarma place close to the beach and it was probably one of the best priced lunch in this trip and was really yummy. We had quite a bit of time to chill out and relax in La Serena as there was no such activity that we participated in as a team or individually. Margaret went for mountain biking as she is so much into those outdoor activities, it is simply amazing! I have never met anyone like her before! Of course, Steph went for her afternoon snooze as usual ( she loves it!it seems she always mange to get that somehow, not sure how she was working and still getting that pleasure of afternoon snooze!). The very last lunch or meal that we had in la Serena was one of the best valued and tasteful meals that I had in Chile. Whatever was that sauce on the grilled fish, it was just awesome, I simply loved it. We left La Serena after 2 days on an afternoon and our next destination is San Pedro.....
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