High Season

Being happy at work

Right in time to help to cure my January depression there opened up a German restaurant in the center of Pucón called 'Biergarten' (Beer garden). It is run by a very nice German couple and because Elke, the owner, is working in the kitchen herself, you can get real authentic German food over there like 'Schnitzel', 'Leberkaese', 'faschierte Leibchen' or 'Bratwuerstl'. Because they of course have very good beer as well and Uli, Elkes husband, is an enthusiastic motorcyclist it became something like my second living room and I washed down my frustration there with some nice draft 'Weizen' more than once.

Fortunately February had been much better than January and I had to work a lot which saved me from drinking too much beers at 'Biergarten'. That for I drank them at lots of asados with colleagues like someone uses to do it here during the summer. So I finally earned some money, had fun on the river, a lot of sun and no time to be annoyed with troublesome Chileans. Apart high season has to offer numerous events in Pucón. Apart from the asados there took place various concerts, the annual triathlon, a rodeo, numerous exhibitions and so on. Inés and I had been to the life performance of Chile's most famous theatre group who has a weekly sitcom. They had a cooperation with Inés' restaurant so we got free tickets. It was a typical funny and easily understandable slapstick comedy about relationship problems so even I could laugh a lot.

So February passed by quite fast and amusing and meanwhile high season already had come to an end a few days ago. Now Inés, who had been working heavily as well these weeks, and I will go on a small holiday for about a week to relax from all the tourist crazyness. We will go north from Pucón but to know whereto exactly you will have to have a look in here again because so far we do not exactly know it ourselves.