Vida de Valdivia – Tercero Dia

I’ve dragged my feet on getting this last day of our Valdivia trip posted – a lot has been going on and now I’m in another country – but now I’m going to wrap it up:

For our third day, we set out to do everything the weather had stopped us from doing previously.  After breakfast, we headed downtown, hitched the No. 20 to Niebla and then sat back and drank in the beautiful scenery along the river banks.

We weren’t quite sure where to get off the bus because the area was spotted with small homes, boats and fields but nothing really looked like the make up of a town.  So when we came to an intersection where both roads were paved, we thanked the driver, hopped off the bus and began walking in an agreed-upon direction.  We were looking for a) a ferry to take us to Corral, b) a ferry to take us to Isla Mancera, or c) a castle.  When we found a fort instead, we started there.

As always, my sister quickly made a new friend:

If only he knew her true nature:

Naturally, Batman came along for the trip:

We finally found the ferry to Isla Mancera, but by this time were tired of wandering around, so we started to make our way back to the bus stop.  Along the way, another one of my sister’s fans showed up.

We took the bus back to the Kuntzmann brewery so we could “rest our legs” for a bit.  While I had a piece of coconut pie, my sister and her bf (… and Batman) ordered the much anticipated beer tower, La Columna:

After waddling out of the cervezeria, we took the bus back to town and spent the remainder of our trip wandering around Valdivia, upsetting some of the locals along the way:

before making one last trip to the grocery store (for dinner food) where I found this:

The German influence runs deep here.