We loved our first few days in Sucre - stayed at a fantastic hostel called Casa Verde with a warm and helpful host, comfortable rooms, central location and a great kitchen - a couple of home cooked meals and a few cups of proper (Lipton) tea were a treat. Amazing how much we miss good caffeine! The tea and coffee are pretty mediocre in this neck of the woods - hoping Colombia and Central America will be an improvement in coffee quality... Mmm - what would we do f...

So.. We left you in Tucuman about a week ago, having successfully planned a route out of Argentina despite the Easter madness, across the border and into Bolivia. A little oasis in the middle of the dreary hours on board questionably road worthy buses / cars lay ahead in the form of the Salta Design Suites hotel. We spent a special night pretending we were 5-star (ok- 4-star) hotel type people - cocktails on the roof-top terrace followed by a swim, a jet bath, ro...

So we'd had our fill of the wine lands, and continued the journey north towards the next stop called San Miguel de Tucuman. A region known for surreal vistas, outdoor adventure, and, very important to any starving traveller, tasty local cuisine. It has an all encompassing terrain from bustling city to dense jungle forest to expansive flowering fields to harsh cactus filled deserts. A true spectacle of a region. After a twelve hour bus trip (thank you Mr. Jobs fo...

Arrived in Mendoza yesterday after a long, but comfortable, bus trip. Lazy boy seats and two meals served by a fairly grumpy hostess. Mendoza is beautiful - open spaces, wide avenues, lots of trees and designed around five pretty plazas which makes foot navigation easy. Our B&B is lovely - best hosts, who have done everything they can to make our stay comfortable and easy. Google Translate - genius! Had some good food at local restaurants, walked the stree...

Thoughts on BA.... Buenos Aires (population 13mil) is a bustling, noisy, alive and alert. It only gets started at 10 in the morning, and then the pace seems to accelerate throughout the day until it reaches 'peak hour' late at night. The architecture is that fascinating juxtaposition of old and new. High rise office blocks alongside gorgeous columned theatres. Like most big cities it is high density living with tall apartment blocks that are unassuming from th...