So, after the weird hostel and terrapin incident we decided that maybe Mendoza wasn´t for us and decided to leave after 3 days.Not before we did the bike tour of the wineries though onvery VERY uncomfortable bikes which luckily became more bearable after a few tastings of the local produce......Tim got very excited about some smoked olive paste which he decided to treat himself to and then smasha few kilometeres down the road which was fun, but the wine was lo...

Hey! Well it´s been a good week since we´ve been able to find any sort of internet cafe but here we are in Salta, in the northern Argentina. Done a fair bit since the last blog so I guess I´ll start from the beginning and see how I get on: So, after I posted the last blog we had another week in Bariloche learning Spanish. Our teacher the second week wasn´t quite as good as the first, which was a shame, so a lot of the lessons were spent looking in a diction...

Hmmm I seem to be getting the locations mixed up. i´m writing this in Salta but it´s about Mendoza, hope that makes sense. Anyway, after a 17 hour night bus from freezing Bariloche we arrived in hot hot hot Mendoza where it was roughly 34 degrees. Bit of a shock to the system after the snow capped mountains but a chance to give the ol summer clothing a bit of an airing. First hostel we found was pretty cheap but when we arrived we got really bad vibes as al...

Hola chicos, yes thats right, were learning spanish here in Bariloche. Sorry for the horrendous punctuation, cant work out this keyboard at all so no exclamation marks or apostrophes here. Arrived over a week ago last Thursday and we re staying in a hostel called 1004 which is on the 10th floor of a huge builing near the square. The views of the lake and snow capped mountains are incredible but for some reason this computer wont let me upload any photos whic...

Ok so I think this next bit warranted a new blog entry. So, we´re at the bus station, 2 tickets to Puerto Madryn, 17 hours south of Buenos Aires clasped in our sweaty paws. The Don Otto bus is due to leave at 19:15 and we´d decided to splash out on ´cama´ seats which are the ones that recline all the way back so that they lie at 180 degrees. When we got to our terminal though a green Via Bariloche bus is waiting for us looking a bit old and decrepit. We´r...