Apart Hotel Vina

... ' features was the wiring overhead; just a tangle of lines everywhere. We had eaten lunch at a British-owned restaurant called the Hotel Brighton(!);  we sat out on their patio high in the hills looking over the whole of Valparaiso and it was ...

... were closed - you need to remember that museums close here on Mondays.  I took another tour of this area which was alright apart from the weather.  Apparently, this is a regular occurrence in this area  - the sea mist.  We had lunch ...

... that we are in March, even though the temperature remains in the late 20's or early 30's Celcius!). Our expectations were poles apart from reality - from the bus terminus we walked through the shopping area, and walked, and walked some more until we got ...

... Chile and even better that it all went so smoothly.  We went with our driver (yes, we`re now big time) to our apart-hotel which just happened to be next to the Sheraton Four-Seasons.  So once the Sheraton boys had pulled all our luggage out for ...

... with Santiago so we decided to visit the nearby coastal cities of Vina del Mar and Valparaiso which are only a couple of kilometres apart. As Chile is an extremely narrow country they are only a 2 hour bus journey from Santiago, which itself lies at the ...

... were picked up at 9am, which was compared to previous excursions and excellent pick-up time. The bus was nice, did not fall apart half way and everything went pretty smoothly. Although we did not think the 2 cities were overly exciting, it was nice to ...

... século passado...foi muito bom , já que na outra vez estava fechado....dai fomos à praia de Viña del Mar e regressamos ao nosso hotel para um banho de piscina básico....... Outra coisa não mencionada no bloge de ontem foi que a dona RO sentiu ( diz ...

Tag 75 - 82:   Was haben wir von unseren Reisebekanntschaften nicht schon alles über Santiago de Chile und dessen Umgebung gehört: reine Zeitverschwendung, absolut nichts zu sehen. Einmal mehr zeigte sich, dass jedermann einen anderen ...

... along the sea front and had lunch there and also visited a museum which has the only Moai from Easter Island outside of the island apart from the one in the British Museum (which the Chileans want back from us!). All in all it was a bit of a ...

... ...not overly flavorful, but fun and interesting. The locals got a good laugh out of it. The riverbank was nearby the hotel and nicely maintained. They have marble art sculptures all along the bank, and there are numerous restaurants and pubs around too. ...

... musician friends of Neruda, and was decorated with lots of photos of them with Neruda. We were the only people in the restaurant, apart from a life-size model of Pablo sitting at the corner table staring at us - weird! Lunch wasn't too bad, though. After ...

... map and headed out to explore. We caught an ascensor that climbs the steep hills by the coast and I cant believe it hasn't fallen apart. Very impressive given when it was built 18 something or other. After that we took a tram to Vina del Mar. Getting the ...

... inside. Aware that the theatre showings were 2.30 and 3.30 , I was egar to find the Theatre. No one speaks English and apart from a hall with throne there is little to see but delapidated walls and buildings.The boys moaned at what they saw as more ...

... of Chile. I organised a tour to Viña del Mar and Valparaiso. They are adjacent cities located on the same bay 10 km apart. One is a modern city built on a flat area, the other is the historical port built on hills. Given the geological isolation of ...

... here, and they seem to all have cars, so it makes for very dodgy air quality. Anyway that´s the bad bit about Santiago, but apart from that its a wonderful city for sure! It has touches of Buenos Aires, but is a little bit more edgy, and personally I ...

... least favorite part of traveling and perhaps the greatest strain on our relationship) we settled into an overpriced cinderblock hotel very centrally located in downtown Santiago. The management of the hotel seemed to think that collecting currency from ...

... REPAIR DAY: TACNA God bless the good people at Tatepro Honda. After working for most of the night, the mechanic has taken apart the gearbox, replaced the faulty bearing and put it all back together in one piece ready for collection. A quick test ...

... checking out of the Sheraton. Nadine awoke the next morning and tugged open the curtains to reveal bright sunshine over the hotel pool. “I wonder what the conference is that all those people with name tags on are attending” she called over to ...

... on Tuesday. Vina del Mar is the cleaner, better educated and more socially acceptable cousin to Valpo.  They are only minutes apart, yet if they really were human cousins they would only speak to each other a few times a year at family gatherings, ...