Full Moon in Santiago

We've just arrived in Santiago,Chile and I'm looking out the floor to ceiling windows of a 15th story apt at the full moon and lights of the city. This is a city of 5 million people. We spent the afternoon climbing the hill at Sta Lucia to view it from the top. Snow covered peaks all around, then down into the market to buy vegetables, fruits, nuts and cheeses for an evening snack. This is such a change from the areas that we have been frequenting, like Rupanco, a 30 mile long lake ovverlooked by two hundred ft waterfalls and a volcano, Puerto Varas, on a HUGE lake overlooked by two volcanos and beautiful, verdant farmlands. Well I could go on and on. Chile is fantastic and totally unexpected. It's like the Swiss Alps, the California coastline, a little bit of Mexico and a lot of Germany and so pure. Yesterday we were eating at a German restaurant by the lake, a few days before we were checking the surf in Parga and today it's all about the city. The overriding theme is the food. It's time to get back to the basics there, or face serious consequences!! Oh the stress of it all....