The local authority have built a nice coastal walkway between one posh town, Zapallar, and another, Cachagua, so that poor people like us can walk along the end of all the gardens of the fancy million dollar homes and peer at the rich people drinking their cool Chilean wine sitting by their swimming pools in their gilded cages. Or perhaps the idea is that the rich can sit by their pools and watch all the poor people pass by the end of their gardens. It is a bit like a zoo but I am not sure who are the animals.
So we decided to walk along this path this morning as the weather was fine, most of the way was quite pleasant but in a few places I think the rich householders have either built over the path or destroyed it so there were a few challenging scrambles.
It kept us entertained for most of the day but we were back in time for a late lunch in the nice fish restaurant we visited last night, it is a very trendy place in the best spot in the bay. When we arrived we were told there was a 40 minute wait for a table, then the head man recognised us from last night and we were quickly ushered to the best table in the place, perhaps we overpaid!
So we have had a very nice, slightly boozy Sunday lunch in the sunshine looking out over the blue Pacific ocean trying to look at home in these rather posh surroundings.
I have noticed conger eel on several menus over the past fortnight but have not plucked up the courage to order any. Last night I was feeling brave so ordered conger eel fillet. I imagined burly fishermen fighting frightening monsters of the deep and chefs tackling huge chunks of meat. When it came it was a bit disappointing (and tasteless) so I looked up Chilean dishes on the web and discovered it is not conger eel as we know it, a huge disappointment.