Anyway, the date is marked by a big naval parade here in the Plaza Sotomayor and a presidential speech down the road in Congress.. It's quite an important event. Here are some photos.
The police look on, clearly jealous of the Navy Cadets' shiny blue uniforms.
And although they've got nothing to do with the armed forces, Los Caribineros de Chile also got to parade. In these photos you can see both Caribineros and Caribineras-the guys got to march with rifles. Obviously, women can't be trusted with big guns...
For some reason that i couldn't fathom, the Chilean equivalent of the cowboy or gaucho-el huaso- also got all dressed up and took a stroll with the Navy and the Pacos.
After the parade we went to have lunch in a little hole in the wall tapas bar that we've walked past dozens of times. It's called Urriola 383. The address is Urriola 383. It's quite a cool place-the food was good but not spectacular. We had Papas Bravas, bruschettas of capresse (tomato, goats cheese and basil) and also spanish chorizo along with a carnitas asadas-thin strips of beef. It ended up costing 11,000 pesos (us$20) including a couple of soft drinks, which i thought a bit pricey for what we got. Still, the atmosphere was nice so we'll probably go back at some point and try some of the other stuff on the menu. If you go, make sure the owner's daughter isn't around-she pushed me out of my seat and started eating our food...
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That is kind of freaky... the women's uniforms, I mean. They look like they were copied from US WW2 designs. You may not be familiar with a tv show called "Wonder Woman" from the late 1970s, but check out pics of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman's alter ego, Diana Prince. The resemblance is spooky.
Supposedly we're going to have a military display of some sort on May 25th. I don't think they've had a major display since the dictatorship fell (with good reason). I'm eager to see it, but a friend of mine said that if I go it will appear that I support the military. Wouldn't want that.
wear a hat and put a fake beard on...
i forgot to add to the part where the women weren't carrying rifles like their male counterparts-motorcycle police in chile ride either rock-star harley type bikes or cool off road trail bikes...women motorcycle police get given...a tiny 50cc moped. Not quite as cool.
nice to see it resulted in something, all that senseless drum banging disguised as "practice" I had to endure when I visited Valpo last weekend. Although on the plus side we got spared a totally mula Mapuche story telling because of the noise.
Jealous you get to live in Valpo, I'll probably email you about the apartment sitch someday soon.
Aw, women only get Vespas? That's sad :)
robert-not vespas but those cheap 50cc mopeds. they sell them in the supermarket over here...
chileno-no idea what an apartment sitch is but feel free to email me. and yeah, all that banging got on my nerves last weekend as well-we thought at first that the sailors just loved their mummies very much as it as mother's day. then we realised it was the day of the prat coming up.
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Cheers
Pedro
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