Though I came to Mendoza for the wine festival, I wasn´t prepared for the whiney film about rich Californians (inextricable featuring David Mitchal from Peep Show) on the coach. Because of it, I have now bought ear plugs for my next journey. It turned out that the wine festival was due to start next Saturday but thankfully I wasn´t the only person to make this mistake so it was at least full of people wishing to sample fine wines. It´s probably a ...

I´m still in Bariloche despite wanting to go to Mendoza today. It seems that I am not the only person to whom a wine festival sounds appealing so all the buses were full. Thanfully, in the end I managed to get one of the two remaining seats for tomorrow and I won´t have to stay much longer in Bariloche. The town is nothing more than a tourist trap with badly designed alpine style buildings, ridiculous prices and worst of all, loads of St. Bernard dogs c...

I have managed eventually to leave Buenos Aires and head south to Bariloche in the Argentinian lake district but not before finally taking a cycling tour of the city. I saw the painted iron houses in La Boca and learnt much about the history of Buenos Aires, though it is possible that the guides might have been fabricating some of the stories. Needing to take a break between Buenos Aires and the forthcoming wine festival in Mendoza, I decided on Bariloche, a very...

Today has been even more uneventful than most, which is saying a lot. This means that I have tomorrow to see all the sights that I have missed so far, not to mention booking my coach to Patagonia and collecting a mystery package. Last week, in an attempt to change my routine slightly and save some money, I moved hostels to the Milhouse, which everyone said was the best in Buenos Aires. Even though it is cheaper and more comfortable than my previous hostel and has...

The longer I stay at Buenos Aires, the harder I think it will be to leave. I have settled down into a routine involving Spanish lessons in the early afternoon, lunch and an evening sleep followed by continious late nights. Seeing a Norwiegan boy who had been staying in BA for a month stumble into the hostel in the afternoon after a night out and collapse on the floor, trying to drink water through a straw that was just out of his grasp, I think it would be a good...