Chile > Santiago Driving through picturesque mountain scenery for 7hrs was a great way to be introduced to a new country, destination no.9: Chile. Within the first few hours of being in Santiago city we had already said goodbye great steak and hello fast food! However, accompanied by another couple we met in Mendoza - who happen to be from Southsea (Hey Kelly & Steve!) we let that slide and talked the night away.Confronted with a map of Santiago, we soon...

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 ...

Argentina > Buenos Aires: Part I Hi everyone, We spent an amazing ten days in Buenos Aires and each day was filled with something new and exciting; too much to fit in this little blog so we'll only allow our fingers to share the highlights... From Iguaçu we went from luxury to luxury, leaving our hotel-like accommodation and traveling in style for 16hrs. Our ´suite´ bus included fully reclining seats, covers, pillows, a TV, dinner with alcohol and breakf...