Today we have a wine tour. It's not been too easy communicating with Bamba to organise our trip because we don't always have wifi. They're very last minute. We have only a couple of days in each place so if we don't get in touch with them soon enough to tell them where we're staying we may miss a tour. We'd received the email last night to let us know the tour today starts at 2:30pm so we had the whole morning to check out of our twin bed room and move into a 6 b...

We arrived in Mendoza, got our bags off the bus and jumped in a taxi to a hostel. We were so tired but we wanted to see the town so we left our bags in the room and went for a wonder around. The first thing we noticed was the canal/river and the water fountains had no water. In Mendoza it doesn't rain very often. The buildings were a mix of modern and old (more modern than old). We read that an earthquake destroyed the majority of Mendozas architecture so very li...

We woke and checked our emails.... Nothing. We cleaned up, packed and skyped home. I checked the news and the bus driver union had made an agreement. The strike was over! I sent an email to Bamba experience for an update and got a reply straight away saying they've booked our bus, the ticket will follow. We went for a little walk up the high street to get some money out and buy our subway ticket. The man ran around the counter, at the train station, to point out...

I woke to an email from Bamba experience saying there had been a problem with my Paypal payment. i spent the morning going through security with Paypal, confirming receipt with Bamba then confirming we had been booked on the bus leaving tomorrow. Once i thought everything was sorted Bamba replied telling me there is a strike so the bus may not be running. I replied straight away letting them know i'd enquired and had been assured before i booked that Bamba was no...

We woke up panicking a little. Ok I woke up panicking a little. We're meant to be leaving on Tuesday and we hadn't decided where we were going. I pulled out the map of Argentina and started marking off the places we wanted to visit then I checked the best times to visit so I could know a few places off the list. Mar del plata is best in June - Sept to see whales so we decided not to go there. Barloche is a ski place, wrong time of year so we opted out of here too...