We discovered that the changing of the President was taking place at the palace so there was quite a bit of disruption with a large presence of police/military and closure of several streets. Sounds like New York in that it seems that Chileans just lean on the horn when traffic stops. Quite annoying! We did a wee bit of shopping.
On Wednesday traffic was supposed to go back to normal so Marlene and I had purchased tickets for the Hop On/Hop Off bus thinking we would tour the city one last time. We discovered the traffic to be grid locked so got a refund and went by foot. A couple of hours later we were tired and hot. The maps are not very good. Even though we seem to have several maps they all say something different. We hopped a taxi but due to our mixed message to the driver (relying on our map!) he got lost. We asked him to take us to the Sheraton as we knew he could find that and there was a sculpture display close by that we wanted to see.
We decide to take the metro back to our apartment. The metro system is quite good but it was crowded and very hot. Picked up a bottle of white wine and went back to the apartment. Lots of groceries to finish up as we are heading to Valparaiso by bus on Thursday.
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