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Wine tasting in Mendoza

Monday, February 11th, 2008

We made it Bariloche after that bus journey, but because of that bus journey could do nothing but sleep for two days. So sleep we did, in the very cool and laid back hostel. On our last day there Ylva casually dropped it into the conversation that Bariloche is the chocolate capital of Argentina. That decided the morning’s activity. We stocked up, on what was possibly the best chocolate I’ve ever eaten and headed off to the next stop on our tour, Mendoza.

This place is known for wine. It seems to be the only reason people come here. It has a lot of bodegas (vineyards) around the outskirts of the town, and visitors can either get a fancy tour around or rough it on bicycles.

We sort of did a mixture of both. Stupidly, we let our hostel talk us into booking an expensive tour. The only difference between expensive tour and roughing it on bicycles is the pick up in a fancy car, rather than taking the bus. Our car picked us up an hour late, shortening our wine time (I’m still angry and bitter about that as I write – quite a while after).
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So I passed by a glacier the other day…

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The 5th of January 2008 was the day I became an environmental nut. No more plane rides or electricity for me!

We visited the Perito Moreno Glacier down in El Calafate, very southern Argentina. I had extremely high hopes for this because getting there wasn’t quite the highlight of my trip so far. First, we bade Christian farewell as he went off back to Nicaragua to do some more work. Then we headed to the bus station, stayed right where the bus was supposed to leave from but somehow missed it. Little bugger left from a different platform. Luckily the owner was a nice guy who packed 6 of us who were in the same boat into taxis to catch the bus. Got on to meet some angry heads. Seems they didn’t like waiting for the stupid tourists who missed the bus. After that 2 hour ride came the 23 hour one, 3 hours after that ended we jumped on another that lasted 10 hours, and almost directly after that was a 5 hour one. During that we were made watch the same terrible Argentinian movie twice! When it all ended we got out of the bus station and walked in the wrong direction for a long time. Some ladies put us straight and we found our hostel, only to be told the person I’d made the booking with was a daughter of someone and doesn’t actually work there, so we we were on the hunt again. So after all that, I was prepared to point my hairdryer at this glacier if it didn’t live up to expectations.
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Happy New Year!

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
New year 2007/08 has been a very stressful experience for us. After spending 10 days in Buenos Aires we were eager to move on, but just couldn’t decide where. We wanted to go to Uruguay but it just seemed like ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Christmas in Buenos Aires

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Ever since I left Ireland 6 months ago I’ve been planning Christmas. The only problem with my plan was that it kept changing every few days. I wanted to go to a beach, wanted to go home and wanted to ... [Continue reading this entry]

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