Magical Concert

I love music, I’m always listening or singing it, it’s so relaxing, so, naturally, I love to go to concerts. At 2009, my favorite singer came to Santiago, Ismael Serrano, a Spanish solist that plays similar music to Silvio Rodríguez or Alejandro Filio, voice and guitar basically, beautiful lyrics, of course I didn’t doubt to go to his concert, it was at Movistar Arena and for my lucky, the ticket was really cheap for the ubication I wanted, like $14000 and I was literally next to him, so, you can imagine how happy I was.

I went with one friend that is a big fan of Ismael to, he told me about the concert, we went together, and we both were so excited! We were going to be practically next to him, we couldn’t wait a second.

Finally, the day came, my friend picked me at my house, and then we arrived to Movistar Arena. We went to our seating and the concert started. I never saw Ismael live before, but it was one of the best inversion I made in my life, he played for four hours and I just paid $14000, can you believe it? Four hours, he played all my favorite songs, he made jokes between every song, it was a great concert, cheap and exciting, everyone there was so happy, laughing, singing, the entire place was full of happiness, I remember that moment like something very magical.

Ismael plays a kind of music that is very quiet, I like to go to another kind of concerts to, but I really enjoyed this one, because it happens sometimes, that the singer doesn’t sing as good as they do at TV, but this time it was like being listening his cd at my bedroom, I recommend you to go, if you like music in Spanish, you will enjoy this!

Eating Out!

I have a very big family and sometimes we like to go out to eat, we are 6 people, so, we all have very different tastes of food, I love to eat fish, my dad loves to eat meat, etc., so, it’s very difficult to find a place that makes us all happy. But one restaurant that we all like, because of the food, the place, the owners, everything, is ELEMENT.

ELEMENT is a Patagonian food restaurant and the house is a typical construction of the south of Chile. It’s located in Monseñor Edwards 1636, La Reina, Santiago. is almost new, no more than four years and is one of the main streets of the district (and luckily my house is close).

One day, we were on the way home and we saw a beautiful construction of a wooden house, we didn’t know what was it, but we liked a lot. A few months later, there was a huge sign saying “opening ELEMENT”, the wooden house was a restaurant, but we do not pay much attention. The first time we went there was because one of our neighbors told us that the food there was great, so we said ok, let’s go and see what it is. we arrived there and were greeted very well, it was a good start, but then we asked for the food and I can say that ELEMENT have the best salmon dish I've ever eaten, my dad (who loves to eat meat) loves one dish called “Carne a la Sal”, and I swear I could recommend everything on the menu, you can find pasta, soup, fish, meat, vegetarian food, seafood, and everything is perfectly served.

That first time was the beginning of a "relationship", now, I think we go there at least once a month, the restaurant is a family business, and now we know the cooker, the waitresses, the receptionist, etc. It’s a very warm place and all people that works there is kind.

The last time I was there was on Tuesday night, with my family we made a farewell to an aunt who came to visit us from Denmark and she also became a lover of the place jajaja.