Ankara Hotel Vina del Mar
Avenida San Martin 476 Vina del Mar, Chile
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Rest and Relaxation at Chilean Coast
... straight through Patagonia and Southern Chile, we are starting to feel a little bit of fatigue. We are still enjoying our time here though, but thank goodness for Vina Del Mar because it was a nice place to just chill and do nothing. Since Chile, had a great variety of produce, we enjoyed our days walking around town and shopping for the meals of the day. It was funny because sometimes we are so consumed by the uniqueness of activities for an ...
Friends from the road
... Starting up to leave, Rover showed signs of distress, barely idleing, fuel related, Steve bled the fuel lines and it ran better, but it's still not quite right, trouble with hills especially. On our way north to El Quisco (the chosen meeting place) we were caught in San Antonion rush hour traffic with an added detour because of an accident. Luckily we could follow the line of stop-and-go-slow traffic back to the highway because we have no map of the city ...
Montecarlo of Chile
... was about a 30 stone young lad with long hair and beard that never moved from his seat in the corner, always on his laptop with food around him. He never spoke and gave us the heeby jeebies.
Thursday we decided to go to Valparaiso, which is the next town along, its a little more artisan with colourful building and LOTS of hills. We got the metro, again I did the talking to get the tickets, here I had to read directly from the phrase book, Roscoe wouldnt ...
The Bohemian City of Valparaiso
... isn't safe and apologises to us. We'd thought she was coming to ask us something, but no, she went out of her way to come and warn us specifically. Crazy! Katie was no longer thinking I was paranoid! She also tells is the museum is no longer open, so we make a quick exit from this dodgy area, heading back down the stairs.
Our book then directs us to an area known for robberies, Plaza Echaurren. We didn't stay long here, had a quick look at the Iglesias ...
Once more in the footsteps of Darwin
... we were doing he just felt a little shy of praising people publically. Rather sweetly he phoned us the day after we left to say how grateful he was for all the hard work we’d put in.
We were also getting on better with the builder, as he seemed to have laid off the unsolicited advice (with us anyway) and we spent a lovely day with him learning to plaster the walls of the new café with mud render. He was ...



