Hotel Regal Pacific Santiago Las Condes

... be able to make it for you.<br><br>Vietnam Discovery &#8211; in the Bellavista area. A few streets from La Chascona. A Chilean, French, and Vietnamese trio opened the only Vietnamese restaurant in Santiago. The menu is limited, but the food is good. <br><br>Cafe Armani - Connected to the Emporio Armani store in Vitacura. Serviceable Italian food.<br><br ...

... country with a combination of respect and disappointment.<br>On a brighter note, the history of this place is fascinating. The perspective is something I have never gotten through classes in school, especially since I can't recall ever meeting a Chilean previously. After La Moneda, we visited the Plaza de Armas where people had stands and were passing out pamphlets about socialism and leadership. The mix of democratic and socialist views is truly fascinating, and I cannot wait to ...

... room knowing that I had gotten everything (aside from a few hiccups in the plan that have been more or less frightened out of existence) in order for my trip. I am ready to go. I have researched my not-to-far-in-the-future home, the surrounding areas, and trips that I can take in the month I have in South America after the program. I am anticipating some pretty stressful situations once I get down there, but in the end I know ...

... to Vina del Mar. It had been an exciting yet exhausting two days! We returned home around 8 PM that evening.<br><br>How great it was to spend a couple of days surrounded by these mountains!!! I don't have the words to describe how much fun I had! I continued to have fun that Friday night with my brother, Oscar, and his friends. He picked me up and took me to his apartment around midnight (that's usually when they start their partying). We hung out with ...

... to explore. Over the next 2 days we walked around the city and ventured out into a huge park that standing proudly over the top of the city was the Virgin Mary herself. The cool thing about that was we visited her on Mother´s Day. We sadly didn´t get to spend the day with our own mothers, but celebrating Jesus´ mother along with every other Chilean was a very neat experience. We didn´t stay long in Santiago before long we were on an overnight bus ...

... district with a number of restaurants. I started by taking the metro to the Plaza des Armes, the main square of the city. At the metro statiion I stumbled across my first quirky interesting thing of the day - a Chilean boy band doing a personal appearance in the metro station (I've now idea why !). As with most countries I've been to the metro puts the London Underground to shame - though it can be a bit crowded and shuts at 2230 The Plaza des ...

... up the hill hanging on for dear life and Ana was totally out of control and flew over the top......thankfully unhurt. We all finally got off saddle sore and ran to catch the bus home.......tonight we all went to bed early. Yet another flight, this time just a short 90 minutes to Santiago....arrived &amp; straight off to the vineyards to tour &amp; taste....we stopped en-route at a local restaurant which served the biggest meals on earth ...

Bumping into Mike in Santiago was wicked, it was lovely to see a familiar face... the last time we had spent any time together was in Manchester 3 years ago so there was loads to catch up on... In santiago there are these coffee bars, several different chains, which differ in the colour and the length of the skin tight dresses that the 'ladies' working there wear! it is only since that i have found out these double up as brothels! Anyway that is where we innocently spent ...

... are manufactured by Alsthom, it's the same alarm bell, and even the smell is the same. :) Finally, there are lots of French cars in the streets, mostly Peugeot but I have seen a few Renault and Citroëns too. Having said that, Santiago is not a very photogenic city. Everything's mixed up, there is no real unity, so it's hard to take decent pictures. On the other hand it's very much alive, bristling with people, and it's ...

... 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