Cafayate - Catamarca, Argentina. A striking and charming town, made all the more atmospheric by the surrounding vineyards. We had a day off to explore. Made more complex by the need to change my now square and balding tyres. Luckily we had the globebusters' tyre changing collective, made up of the knowledgeable (Alan), the needy (Lou & meself), and the downright helpful (Mike(&Di) & John(&Marion)). Using no more than two logs and some suitable ...

Mon 30th April. Somehow haven't had time to write for the first two days. Left Buenos Aires on Saturday in the pouring rain, 330miles to santa fe. Rain for the first 280miles of motorway - yum. Thankfully our kit held out fantastically well, with the exception of lou's gloves where the "waterproof" label turned out to be purely ornamental. Worked our way into the city of Sante Fe following some very soggy notes, but thankfully bumped into Angelica (our german fel...

Day four. Motorcycles have officially arrived, but still buried deep in the docks, awaiting Official attention and some magic waving of paperwork. At the moment we are all caught in a state of uncertainty, without bikes we are just particularly badly dressed tourists. So yesterday we all decided to do the tourist thing and get a tour around the city. A decidedly average idea. I think we lapped the obelisk on the central 9 July avenue about five times, each time v...

Writing this sitting in a darkened hotel room by the light of the iPad trying not to wake someone up. Mind you alarms become a tad moot when the traffic gets going two hours before the sun. The hotel Scala is slap bang in the middle of Buenos Aires, great location just off on the enormous 18(!) lane highway that runs through the middle of the city. I can see UADE business school across the road- about 300m away. Arrived yesterday morning after a single 13hour p...