We arrived in Mendoza after 30 hours on a bus, for a couple of days of relaxation, good food and nice wine.  Well that was true for the most part. Mendoza is a nice city of about a million people, though still maintains quite a relaxed feel, probably as it´s surrounded by Argentina´s wine region (which produces 70% of Argentina´s wine).  It´s also not far from the Andes and the Chilean border.  The streets are wide and ...

After 32 hours on a bus, we arrived in Puerto Madryn, a city of 70k people near to Peninsular Valdez on Sunday night.  Many welsh people settled here over a century ago, though you wouldn´t think it to look at them, although our tour guide did like suspiciously like Robbie Savage! On Monday we took a 13 hour tour to Peninsular Valdez, which is known for it´s population of Southern Right Whales and Killer Whales, which settle in the bay ...

Ushuaia, is the bottom of the world.  It´s the southernmost city in the world (we have the passport stamp to prove it), although there is a small military town of 2k people called Port William just over the border in Chile.  To get here we had to cross the border again, as Ushuaia is in Argentina, as well as crossing a channel on a boat, as the bottom part of the country is not linked by land.  Ushuaia is a small city of about ...

After safely making it out of Brazil, we flew back to Buenos Aires to meet my brother Nick.  Leaving the airport we grabbed a taxi, sat back and relaxed.  Five minutes later as we approached the first toll, the engine cut out.  Generally the taxis in South America aren´t of a high standard anyway, but this one was an absolute piece of crap, and we were happy when the brakes worked.The driver turned round to us and uttered the only word he kne...

As we approached Buenos Aires we were excited.  We heard Argentina was more European than the rest of South America, so we expected good food and more importantly, fast food!  We´ve never looked forward to MacDonalds before in our lives until we got to Buenos Aires, but of course felt sick after we ate it.Buenos Aires is just like most cities in the world, which was re-assuring as we´d missed that for the last few weeks.  There´s ...