Hotel Fundador Santiago

... als auch Alexanders Spanischkenntnisse stark zu verbessern, denn wir unterhielten uns den gesamten Abend mit unserem chilenischen Freund iauf spanisch. Nur Gott weiss, wieviel Bloedsinn wir in dieser Nacht dahergeredet haben!!!
Die erste Haelfte unseres letzten Tages in der chilenischen Hauptstadt verbrachten wir zur Regeneration im Bett, die zweite Haelfte wieder mit Sightseeing.
Im Grossen und ...

... of the same family that started it. We had a couple of tastes (four or five well-filled glasses) and then went with Matias (Caro's dad´s friend) around the countryside through the vines themselves. It was soo cool to see on one side the mountain, on the other the city and running through the middle the thousands of plants. He explained to us the different types of wine and we even got to try some wine making grapes! Next stop, Lakes crossing and finally... Argentina!

... neighborhoods, we had pretty much decided that Providencia is where we wanted to live... we spent quite a bit of time figuring out which bus lines reached Michael's colegio in Vitacura out east, and which metro lines reached my instituto in La Florida down south. We tried each route and checked out the schools... which were both great... We headed to the mall ...

... tait et il fallait que j'achète à l'avance mon billet d'avion entre Puero Montt et Punta Arenas (autrement c'est 36h de bus en passant par l'Argentine et Bariloche). Donc voilà mes quelques photos de Santiago. Après ça, bus en direction de Puerto Montt, puis correspondance pour l'île de Chiloé. ---------- In my previous post about Santiago, I was telling you that it was almost Europe but didn't explain why. First, I was coming ...

... Buenos Aires and as luck had it, by the time we had cleared immigration and waited around for the missing rucksack, the next flight had landed, and I caught sight of my bag moving slowly round the luggage belt - to say that I was very happy is a bit of an understatement.... Gonzalo met us at the airport and it was really nice to see a face we knew, and we are staying in his most fantastic top floor apartment for a few days before ...

... to the hostel as he kept popping out to the local bottle store to keep us topped up. I think that he and Kate were trying to numb the pain of the long long long long flight back to Adelaide that they had before them! Sadly, my photo card on my little camera has acquired a virus so I can't add photos in for this entry until I get back to the UK and sort that out

Today we took the bus to Santiago. It was an absolutely gorgeous drive in the mountains (with eternal snow at the top), you could see loads of horses on the way (paradis pour Clem , Van et Dom). The border crossing was in the mountains, in the middle of nowhere. We finally arrived in Santiago, looks pretty nice, but we start to feel to much of the traveller ...

... like it had only recently opened and then got drawn in to a Lapiz Lazuli jewellers. We did buy two necklace which seemed a very reasonable price though.
That evening we crossed town by metro to eat at Liguria in Provendencia, which was very nice.



November 27 - Last day - back in Santiago



Today we travelled to the Cousina Macul Vineyard (http://www.cousinomacul ...