Posada Colchagua Santa Cruz

... with us the rules of the game, and although he didn't want to brag, he has been known to tie up a calf in lightening speed. Ever the gracious host, Felipe insisted we finish the afternoon by sitting on the porch of the polo field's clubhouse for a cafe cortado. Surrounded by a calm breeze that tempered the heat of the sun, we spoke like old friends with unawkward silences as we breathed in the scenery and relished the moment.

... unlike many wineries in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Canada and the US that we'd visited, very few wineries in Chile are set up for walk-in tourism. Many of the wineries require you to make a reservation days or sometimes even a week in advance. Secondly we discovered that almost all the wineries charged for tastings which usually included a tour of the facilities. Chile's wineries seemed to have taken this paying for tastings to a whole new level, as most ...

... Province. Finding accomodation was a bit of a challenge as there was nothing reasonably priced listed either in my book or anywhere on the internet but fortunately I managed to resolve that with the help of a friendly taxi driver. Santa Cruz is a small town that doesn't seem to have a huge tourism industry. Its main focus does seem to be the wine ...

... tried 3 wines including one of their top end wines that was excellent. The next winery was Santa Emiliana vineyards. They are known for their organic and biofriendly processing. We walked around the grounds and our guide showed us all the things they do to avoid using chemical or foreign substances in the fields. Our guide seemed like he was really bored and was very excited to actually be talking ...

... After we turned off the Pan-American highway, into the Colchagua valley, heading to Santa Cruz we drove past endless fields of corn and grape vines. Beautiful weather and countryside made it a pleasant drive. The town of Santa Cruz (about 200km S of Santiago) is very small and our hotel was in the pretty town square. It was built in the style of a hacienda and had beautiful gardens with climbing scented roses, geraniums ...

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... lots of large rocks, very little in the way of plantings with greenery and flowers except around the historic old hotel and casino there which we walked through quickly. Just a long concrete sidewalk, 2 lane asphalt street and lots and lots of tall hotels and condos packed in. Valparaiso was a lot more interesting. It is a working class city compared to Vina. The houses are old, small and sort of ramshackle but all painted different bright colors (from its bordello past ...

Hi All So i'm pretty sure the entry title for this blog is self explanatory....does anyone speak English? I finally arrived in Santiago on Wednesday, the 12 hour flight passed by suprisingly uneventful apart from some turbulence over the Pacific and the lack of complementory Gin and Tonics! It didn't take long for me to befriend some poor soul who obviously didn't have the sense not to make eye contact with me. Stepping off the plane ...

... philanthropic efforts - giving and teaching what I can, and bringing resources from the Ministry to an otherwise forgotten school - at the above mentioned houses of education allow me to pass the remainder of my hours at Escuela Luis Oyarson Peña, a big, beautiful, clean, although not heated school with many resources, not to mention another volunteer. I roll in around 10am, assist the hardly ...

... the payment until August! I of course refused and considering I was tired and itching to go and see my brother, I decided to take them on an argument. I was of course calm as always and it turned out to be all just fine after a phone call to the manager and refusing to pay twice! Rightly so, I thought that was too easy! The next morning, I faced the problem again! It was nice to see Fouad after almost one year. We talked and talked as you would for the first 2 hours and ...