Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
My second stop in Chile was Viña del Mar, a spa town close to Santiago de Chile and a destination for its inhabitants in summer time. As I was still coping with Chilean Spanish – which is hard to understand because of the well sounding but confusing mumbling of words – I was happy to be at the hotel of a family once coming from Offenbach am Main, Germany.
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I was laughing hard when I read the note from my travel agency that they booked the Residencia Offenbacher Hof in Viña del Mar, Chile for me – as Offenbach is a city close to Frankfurt am Main in Germany. In fact a German family went to Chile and opened this hotel here.
If the inhabitants of Santiago de Chile need some relexation and want to flee from the smog and bustle of their city, they just get to the nearby city of Viña del Mar. What you get here is a nice beach, lots of hotels, bars and restaurants. And a vivid cultural live with many concerts. Even the Chilean presidents know about this and have their summer residence at the Cerro Castillo.