Argentina > Salta Hey, Salta city is north-west of Argentina, 22hrs from Mendoza and offers a year round balmy climate... Mendoza to Salta was a pleasant transition: another overnight business class bus and the sun ready and waiting for us at the other end. The transition from bus station to hostel and hostel to city centre however, was less pleasant, witnessing a man get knocked down by a car and two young Argentinean chavs embed their nails into each other...

Argentina > Mendoza Take II > Hostel Lao Take II Even more fun than the first time round: 1. Our own wine tasting session at the hostel in front of the log fire with the owner Mike, a Dutch grizzly bear called Onno (the guy is 2 meters tall!) and an American food critic, Jess. 2. Another lovely meal with the same group just mentioned, late in the evening after tearing ourselves away from the wine and enjoying typical Argentinean food and steaks the size of...

Argentina > Mendoza Hola, Another suite bus booked we happily traveled 18hrs to Mendoza; the capital of wine. The hostel where we stayed kicked all of the other hostels butts with its warm welcome, great rooms, log fire, 2 beautiful dogs and 2 lovely owners: "Hostel Lao". The best hostel we have stayed in, by a long shot. Map in hand and a lazy afternoon at our disposal, we wondered around the area. Most of the streets are lined with trees and the...

Argentina > Rosario - This blog is dedicated to John Dunaway - Apart from the whispers amongst numerous guys of how beautiful the women are here in Rosario and the ratio of them to men being around 5:1, we had not heard much else about this place 4hrs north of Buenos Aires. Knowing it holds the birth place of Che Guevara (& for Nick to confirm those whispers, "for research purposes only"); we chose to make a whistle stop on the way to Mendoza. ...

Argentina > Buenos Aires: Part II continued...We'd read on another couple's blog about a 3-floor second hand clothes mall - fortunately for us it turned out to be really close to our apartment and so we spent a while exploring this vintage heaven. The huge dressing up box had lots of things that caught my eye but unable to decide I left the purchasing to Nick who bought a couple of things, which he's lived in since!Whether the steak we demolished on market ...