Hotel Costa Renaca
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Breakfast at Renaca
I have to write down the breakfast palaver at the Renaca Inn where I have been staying for the last four nights. All the other hotels have had a buffet system serving more or less the same thing - rolls, croissants, pressed ham, plastic cheese, poor coffee and tea bags with hot water. Not the Renaca Inn. The guest arrives and sits down at her …
Back to School
... to translate something that made sense. This particular girls school was a place where girls from not the best background could go for an education. The teachers act as their main support and it was actually lovely to see how much Paulina and her colleagues care about the students. We did have a conversation with the principal about the olympic athletes and she did mention that some were 'yummy’ (slightly cringey as she wasn’t the youngest of ladies).
After ...
Good Friday in Vina del Mar
... or they would serve me for a whole day. I went back to the hotel to rest for a bit and then walked up and down the beach. The beach in Vina Del Mar is pretty nice. It's good Friday today and this town is absolutely crazy. I could barely walk along the beach and sidewalks. The sidewalks along the beach had markets to buy things like food, crafts, souvenirs, beads, jewelry and scarves. People in the parks near the sidewalks had parties ...
Chips and steak and sausage and cheese
... to tag over the top, other than that the rest of the city is fair game.
Tom:
On our arrival at the hostel we were recommended eating a Valparaiso specialty called chorrillana. This sounded exotic so we dumped our bags in our hostel room and set out to find this delicious sounding cuisine. We found it. It is a massive plate of chips covered in cheese with steak and frankfurters cut into pieces and scattered on ...
Chillin in Chile
... a friend and I arranged to do a bit of couch surfing while staying in the expensive commune. For those of you who don’t know, Couch Surfing is a network of backpackers who are willing to host other backpackers at no charge. They provide you with a place to stay, and if you’re lucky like I was, food and drinks. I don’t really understand what the host gets out of this agreement. I suppose they are looking for opportunities to meet ...