Puerto Madryn & Gaiman: Puerto Madryn is famous for two things - whales and the Welsh, a strange yet perfect combination. As we arrived very early - 7 am and couldn't check into our rooms we went to the seafront for a coffee. When sitting down, across the street from the beach, Lisa looked out and could make out quite clearly whales - right there across the road! It was crazy and at first we thought we were hallucinating from lack of sleep, but no the...

Bariloche: So off for some more Andes action... The approach to Bariloche on the bus was breathtaking and we can honestly say that we have never seen a more beautifully situated town. Hopefully the pictures give you a flavour for this. Unfortunately the view disappeared under a heavy cloud of snow and rain for the next 4 days - nice! Luckily Bariloche really only has two things in its town, chocolate shops and Irish bars, both of which helped soften the...

Mendoza The first thing we noticed when we arrived in Mendoza was that it was A LOT colder than it had been in Cordoba. So we set off to have an explore of the city and to buy big fleecey jumpers. We got about as far as the first corner when we saw a poster for a match between Independiente Rivadavia, the local side, and the famous River Plate, that day. So off we marched (stopping for directions and a wooly hat) to the football ground. It was a bit manic bu...

Cordoba: Including a Revolutionary Special, a look at some lovely churches, and a few days trips to the Sierras. We arrived in Cordoba after a bit of a mess of a journey, having missed our bus from Rosario and having to wait until 5am for the next one... in any case it was eventually fine, and we arrived in Cordoba city early afternoon to, well, nothing really. as it happens they're pretty serious about their siesta here, and in any case EVERYTHING shuts...

Rosario After the sad farewell to Buenos Aires our home of six weeks,(there's a new postacrd from there, and from uruguay to see too), we decided to spend three days in the nearby city of Rosario (only a 4 hour bus journey, the shortest yet). The only things we really knew about Rosario before we went there was that Che Guavara was born there, there was a tower thing (it is on a 10 peso note) and there is a football team called NOB (Newell's Old Boys)....