From the blog Chile con Elizabeth
¡Santiago
es enorme! A few nights ago, I ventured out of the Barrio Brasil, where
we've been staying all week, for an evening tour of the city by bike. I
grabbed a greasy empanada on a street corner near Los Heroes and took
the subway east, almost to the end of the line, to Alcantara. We have
been warned, by just about everyone, about our safety in Santiago, so
fumbling for the right coins for my subway ticket and noticing, for the
first time, that everyone on the train around me had thick, dark
