Spring has sprung - mountain biking, trekking, cooking and gardening

September is the month when spring arrives in Santiago and one can noticeably feel it. The trees blossom, the temperature goes up and stays in the twenty plus during the day quite often. The 18th and 19th of September are national holidays (link in English here) which means that often (when they fall on any other day but Saturday or Sunday) most people get a little break.

The medical system in Chile

Lots has happened since our last post! We had been postponing for a while using the medical system in Santiago (for general check ups and other non-urgent stuff). This was not out of worry about bad doctors or hospitals but instead, we were aware that we had to learn to use the system and in Chile things are often not as straight-forward as one may think.