Have had a great week....the weather is amazing...its winter time so its cold but the sun always shines and the sky is perfectly blue...bliss!! We visited one of the poorer areas of BA called La Boca famous for the football team where Maradona played and for brightly painted tin houses and papermache people! Had some more choripan listening to an old dude sing his heart out crooning old tango tunes! In the afternoon we checked out Evitas Muesum and took in some t...

So after nearly a month livin it up in Buenos Aires we now count ourselves as honorary portenos - people who live in BA!! And its scary how quickly we slipped back into our slack-arsed lives we were vegged into front of the sofa eating a chinese takeway within 6 hours of getting the keys!! Palermo is a really cool neighbourhood with tree lined cobbley streets and a huge park with lakes and stuff....plus it where all the uber trendy bars and restaurants are, so ju...

Taxi-ing to the hostel in Palermo, the first glimpses of BA were bizarre, masses of women laying on their backs exercising in the parks....dogs doing that thing they do becuase they can't use toilet paper.....one of BA's more noticable problems...canine poo everywhere....watch your step, and men dressed as Barney the bear...with not another sole around? But a good looking and lively city if ever you saw one.The following morning we walked all over Palermo...

Left Pucon, in a storm, of course, leaving on an overnight to Santiago. Our practised upright sleeping got us a few hours kip, then a search for the right bus terminal the following morning to get us to Mendoza. The bus jouney was amazing, taking us up a 29 hairpin twist road, nicked-named the "catapilla" (if we got the translation correct) to almost 3000 metres, where we crossed the Andes through a long tunnel and crossed the border on the other side, ...

Hello Rat-fans - Yeeeaaah!After the rocky Ruta 40, we landed safely in the luxury haven ski town of Bariloche. Early swiss inhabitants, keenly spotting the good ski-ing in decades to come, still leaving their mark. Loads of chocolate shops fighting for tourisitc attention on the streets, and its fair to say they got ours, after spending many an afternoon chowing down on the freebie handouts and buying a box or six. Also munched heartily on a triple whammie of Fon...