A Case just in case

Well, we are in Chile after all, so we had to go wine tasting at some point, right? Chile is famous for its wines, white, red, rosé and sparkling. They are exported all over the world at very competitive prices and are reknown for their consistency (no unpleasant surprise when uncorking).

So here we are, on a Monday afternoon, on a wine tasting spree. We selected a winery among the many listed on a map provided by the tourism office. A beautiful place, on the top of a hill, surrounded by vineyards entwined with roses. The roses lure the many insects so they do not damage the grapes; but the combination is beautiful all the same. We are in the New World, so everything is very modern and automatised. After the tour of the winery, we tasted three different wines, one white and two red. We finally ended up spending the whole afternoon there, because of the restaurant offering a gourmet menu with five courses plus dessert, each course accompanied by a different wine, all this sitting on the terrace overlooking the vineyards. Difficult to resist… We finally left the place with a case of six bottles of white in tow, just in case we do not find any more wine in Chile… it is now stored in our bathroom with the gallons of water, one more alternate use for our bathroom, more useful than its original purpose for sure. 

Fortunately, we did not have a long drive to reach our campsite for the night. We spent the night in a rest area for trucks by the highway, just two kilometres from the winery. In Chile, most gas stations and some rest areas have bathrooms and hot showers, with lot of pressure, real hot water, and clean. Our main reason to go to a proper campground is to use showers and bathrooms. Here we can get the same at gas stations for a token. So we do wild camping from time to time and shower at gas stations, or even stay the night. This is what we did, after the gourmet menu, parked in between two huge trucks, and we slept very well.