What is very surprising about Bariloche is that it does not take much to actually get out of town and into, what feels like, the back of beyond. A short local bus ride later, a short spate of gravel road, and another awesome lake, and we were in the tiny little village of Los Coihues. Dusty roads, a tree as a bus stop and locals who rode horses to chase their cows from one side of their paddock to the other; it was hard to believe that Bariloche was only 15km d...

Not quite knowing what to expect when we arrived, but with a reservation somewhere, we decided to play it by ear. We had no plans, a whole lot of time, a little bit of money and a whole lot of gumph and wonder and a desire to extract as much experience as we could! Perfect! Once we had decided that we were heading west, then Bariloche was the logical place to head for. It is the capital of the Lake District after all, but it was the place where we could hunker d...

Not far from the coast lies a little town called Gaiman. It is the unofficial beating heart of Welsh Patagonia where massive Welsh teas are served and you are forever reminded of the fact that this might not just be Argentina. Here the streets have good strong Spanish names like Aaron, Jenkins, Matthews, Hughes, Jones, Humphries and Daniels! In the mid 19th century, the "empty" spaces of Patagonia were identified by the newly formed Argentinean governm...

Have you ever watched those animal or natural history documentaries where the killer whales, or orcas, are cruising in the shallows and then rushing the beach? Where they deliberately beach themselves trying to ambush the seals in the wash of the breaking waves? And whether they succeed or not, they wait for the next wave to help them wriggle off and then try again? Puerto Madryn is the place where you have to come before you head to the remote reserve, Peninsula...

BA is home to the tango. No other place on Earth can claim to be the capital of this dance form. But is it actually a dance? Or rather the purest form of manifesting a horizontal desire into a vertical form? We decided to find out by going to a beginners class, and then watching the pros in action. Such basic steps; just 8 simple steps and the tango is yours. Simple isn't it? Getting up there and learning these simple steps is simple and straight forward enough...