Evita is everywhere in BA, much more than in the other cities we have travelled to the Argentina. She is a particular favourite of current (pro plastic surgery, anti UK) president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. In fact much like Evita, Kirchner splits opinions of Porteños - the free tour guide we had actively disliked her saying she was never at work and more interested in pursuing vanity projects than working for the people. The tour guide at the Casa Rosad...

I think Jon thinks we only came to Buenos Aires because of the football. In fact I think it's the only reason he agreed to come to South America in the first place. He had grand plans to go to a game in every country but hadn't realised we would be doing most of our travelling in the mid season break that runs from December to February across the contintent. So far we had only made it to a game in Ecuador, although he's watched a few on TV to make up for the d...

Porteños - or 'people of the port' as the residents of Buenos Aires are known - are said to be Italian people that speak Spanish, take most of their cultural references from North America and want to be English. It's considered no surprise that with such multiple personalities 90% of them see therapists. Buenos Aires had a massive influx of immigrants from Italy and Spain in the 1880s, and feels more European than South American. It's one of biggest tourism dest...

Cordoba is Argentina's second city with 1.3 million inhabitants, and is almost geographically central in the country. It's also one of the oldest cities in Argentina. It's the site of Argentina's first university, founded by the Jesuits in the 17th century, and is a big student centre now with six different universities in town. Because of this it's billed in the Lonely Planet as a fascinating mix of old and young. Damn Lonely Planet, when will I learn - we end...

Mendoza is the wine producing capital of Argentina. Therefore this blog is mostly about the making and drinking of wine. If you don't like wine, you probably won't be that interested in reading it (sorry Mum). Also if you like wine a lot but are heavily pregnant and unable to drink it you probably don't want to continue reading either (sorry Rosie). For the rest of you, we had four wine-tastic days in Mendoza. To get from Santiago to Mendoza is a seven hour...