Hotel Rugendas Santiago
Callao 3123, Las Condes Santiago, Chile
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Time For A Chilean Wine Tour
Hola! This morning, we didn't have anything planned other than eating breakfast. Although, I thought we could do a wine tour in the afternoon. Since arriving in Santiago, we've enjoyed a bottle of wine every evening and sometimes for dinner as well. The wines here can be purchased in most grocery stores and at a fraction of the prices back home. After breakfast, we made our way to the downtown area ...
Santiago on tour.
We arrived in Santiago and set out almost immediately to the fish market so Megan could cure her craving for some seafoody goodness and then off around the city while we killed time waiting for our walking tour to begin.
Santiago is nice. It is a huge concrete jungle but it has so much variation within it that you really dont notice its enormity! I am still getting used to south american computer keyboards though. All ...
Adios South America....
... will visit on the way back. Then we jumped on the metro and went to the Car Museum. We walked down the longest road ever to get there. They should seriously think about relocating this place – its so far from ANYWHERE! All the buses leaving town go down the road and that’s it! When we eventually get there, Michael is like a kid in Hamleys as he runs round getting very excited and photographing the cars with both his camera lenses. Anyway, ill let you look at ...
We could get used to this...
... of Santiago the more we liked. We decided we had had enough of our soulless hostel and moved to a (yes you’ve guessed it) Lonely Planet recommendation. This wasn’t just your bog standard recommendation, this was the ‘author’s choice’. It was not that much more expensive but what we found was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! A huge old mansion that had been converted to a hostel. To me this place was not a hostel but a boutique hotel. Huge ...
Capitol City Cop Comparison
... enforcement officials in the US capitol city hauling a harmless old guy out of his wheelchair and leaving him bleeding and handcuffed sprawled on the sidewalk.
Not to imply that the capitol police in Chile are universally shining examples of Andy Griffith-esque peace keeping [they're not], but they're certainly ...



