Mendoza is fantastic. It is a small city in the north ish of argentina so its a bit warmer, and no rain. Woo hoo!! The area is a big wine growing region so the wine is very nice and very cheap. On the thursday we hired bikes for the day and cycled around all the wineries. It was very amusing being drunk in charge of a bicycle!!!! At each winery you pay only about 2 pounds to be shown around and you get 3 tasters. It was a lot of fun but my bottom was ver...

Bariloche is very like the Alps with chalet style buildings and St Bernard Dogs wandering around along with the usual strays. We arrived here on the tuesday ready for a nice long week not having to move anywhere with our huge rucksacks (Nigel I just about managed to fit everything in but I am now wishing I had left a few things at home. P.S. How is our friend doing in Big Brother? Has she been voted out yet?). We were planning on doing a few days skiing, bu...

Hi all, Well we arrived in Puerto Madryn actually quite refreshed after our 18 hour overnight bus journey!!!! The buses are so much nicer than any at home. There are 3 classes, semi cama (normal upright coach seat), cama (a really comfortable large leather chair that reclines quite a long way so your almost lieing down), and delux cama (an actual bed!) We decided as we are on a budget, but could not handle the thought of sitting in normal coach seat for 18 h...

Hola mi familia y mis amigos, Buenos aires was fab. Very noisy, very busy and I nearly got run over about 10 times. That would not have been good in the first week!!!! The roads are bonkers. Pedestrian crossings don´t mean anything really, you just leg it and hope for the best. We arrived on Tuesday, and I have now realised I should have tried to learn a bit more spanish. Have got many blank looks and felt pretty stupid most of the time, but it is already imp...