Our first full day in Mendoza (Sunday) was spent at Parque General San Martin on the outskirts of the city. We assembled a picnic and headed for the park in the hope that the weather would stay good for a nice, relaxing day. When we reached the park we were impressed with the huge lake an amount of grassy areas where we could sit and lay out our picnic. We found a spot in the sun and lay down to spend the afternoon relaxing. We were surprised to find both of ...

So today (Saturday) we have arrived in Mendoza which is in the wine making region of Argentina. We travelled here by bus from Buenos Aires which took about 14 hours. This sounds pretty bad but the buses over here are good and quite comfortable so the time tends to go a bit quicker than you would imagine. This is especially true for Beth as she again slept for about 90% of the journey!! We were expecting Mendoza to be a bit warmer than Buenos Aries (there wasn...

It's been a while since we updated the blog as our last few days in Buenos Aires were pretty chilled out. On Wednesday, we were both a bit knackered after the previous two days of a lot of walking so we decided to stay in the apartment to get a few bits done which we had been meaning to do all week. This mainly consisted of washing our clothes before we returned to hostel life. I set Beth away with this task and headed to our favourite bakery for some of our fa...

Yesterday (Monday), we headed to the La Recoleta area of the city which is famous for the large cemetery where Eva Peron is buried. To get there, we had to travel on the subway and walk for a short while. This sounds relatively simple, however due to my questionable navigational skills this turned into quite a trek. Unfortunately, we headed the wrong way out of the apartment block and away from the subway station. What should have been a 5 minute walk turned ...

On Saturday morning, we managed to have a bit of a lie in as we were still knackered after the bus journey to Buenos Aires. I'm not quite sure how Beth was so tired after a 13 hour sleep on the bus but she was! Anyway after getting up, we got ready and Beth generously agreed that I could listen to the match in the apartment before going for a walk. The less said about that the better!!!!! We left the apartment and decided to go for a walk around an area quite...