Back in the Big City
Mood:  hungry
Topic: Chile
I started the girl with the dragon tattoo on the airplane.  Good reading--I didn't notice most of the trip.

I slept in today, missing the hotel breakfast.  I'm pretty tired after ten days of 16 hours or so.  Finally (hungry) I went up to the corner near where the Hyatt is, with Alonso de Cordova about two blocks away.  The street I am on has a pedestrian/bike path down the center so it is a very nice stroll though there are many cars.  I went to Piola, a pizza place there to which I think I have been in the past.

They didn't have the Neapolitan pizze I wanted, with anchovies, so I got one with arugula and old ham which was very good, as was the 0.5l of Kunstmann Torobayo beer with it.  I phoned up Darby to wish him happy birthday and caught him on 64 approaching Chesapeake.

After that, I went across the street and through some ritzy neightborhoods, then down a plaza of restaurants to the grocery store where I picked up some staples (coffee, spaghetti, potato chips; I went there last time I was here so I knew where I waa going) before heading home.  It is about 80 and all the flowers are in bloom.  A very nice walk.

I just put the groceries away and am thinking about what next...I was going to stop at a Starbucks but I couldn't find it so I'm coffeeless today.