Menorca Rent a Suite Santiago

... but for me if was quite ******.<br><br>Despite this, I like Santiago a lot more than I thought it would. It´s supposed to be the safest and "least intimidating" capital in South America, which in my mind meant "boring" but I like it a lot. The location is very good, in a valley between mountain ranges which on one side in particular are impressively large (just under 7km)... Maybe not quite as impressive as La Paz as it's not so constrained in the same ...

... watch her play some tennis. We meet her girlfriends and, of course, Mum and daughter had to do some bonding that mostly involved credit cards! Lauren can lead a &#8216;full&#8217; student life in this city at lower cost even without Mum&#8217;s credit card. The locals are very friendly and welcoming and, she says, cannot do enough for you. I was a bit sceptical on this last point: beautiful girls with strawberry blond hair that come from exotic places will always have ...

Spent lots of lovely times relaxing with the lovely people at the Happy House hostel...getting drunk and becoming an alcoholic...splendid Vino Tinto for less than 2 squid!!<br><br>I learnt to ski in the beautiful Fallarones, windmilling down the slopes whooping it up!! Also travelled to Valparaiso,a beautiful city full of tiny winding streets that you can only get to by taking a rickety ...

... its fantastic! So glad I left Auckland. The weather's not too bad (sunny but not overly warm) and the place itself is remarkably beautiful and vibrant. The hostel is really nice as well. On the first day went up Santa Lucia hill. There's a battlement at the top of quite a steep climb and you get excellent views over the city and out to the mountains. The view's slightly blighted by the thick Santiago smog that hangs over the city. You can see it uite clrearly on some of the ...

... over the coming weeks. From the bus station we got to the metro with ease, arranged our tickets and were soon on our way to Bella Vista... a place recommended by locals while we traveled in Bolivia. We made it safely to BellaVista only to find out that the BellaVista hostel was located practically where we´d just come from... nice little surprise it was!!! Can´t say i enjoyed it... but we´re definitely better people for it! Anyways we got to the hostel and glad we made it as its ...

<br><br><br>Just a dozen innocent words led me quickly back into the tunnel of temptation.<br><br><br>"Would you like a picture together?" I suggested towards a couple of noisy girls eagerly swapping poses in front of Santiago´s smog-hazy skyline. With the Chilean sun high in a milky sky, I´d scaled the urban park of Santa Lucia at midday in the hope of discovering a lofty vista and a quiet spot from which to catch up on my journal entries.<br ...

... Santiago is not quite the hustle and bustle of a city that i was expecting, its quite casual and quiet, there appears to be no big central business area, and unfortunately good food has been very hard to come by. But all in all things here are definitely nice to look at, the architecture is amazing, with many a beautiful building catching our eye during the many hours we have spent wandering the streets, seeing ...

... also have an idea of a plan for South America now...although this will probably change!! We are going to head south for a week, then up to San Pedro de Atacama. We hope to head into Bolivia over the salt flats around the middle of February and then onto La Paz and finally Cuzco. We should get to Cuzco for the 2nd March, to give us a week to relax before doing the Inca Trail. After that, we will head back down through Bolivia to Argentina and get to Buenos ...

... always on time. - Hot water may be available at hostels, but this doesn't mean the water will be hot through the entire shower (sometimes it wavers between hot and cold), nor will there always be much water coming out of the shower. - Patiperro Hostel (in Valparaiso) is a very friendly hostel that I felt at home in and would highly recommend. - Remember to take a map ...

... best of the internet cafes over here, as I tried valiantly to transfer our last NZ photos onto CDs so that we could send them home before flying to Chile. <br><br>However, the bloke in reception was about as much use as a punch in the face (they had no blank CDs and he didn´t know how to use the burning software), so this ...