Apart Hotel Vina

... 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 wonderful. In ...

... 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 at ...

... 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 see ...