Puerta Del Sol Mendoza

... te vroeg alleen had ik meer dan 10 minuten nodig om door te krijgen dat de maatschappij bij wie ik geboekt had niet de maatschappij was bij wie ik in de bus moest gaan. Dus de bus gemist. Het was tevens de laatste bus dus ik moest een extra nacht in Buenos Aires blijven en de volgende ochtend de bus nemen. Het werd uiteindelijk ipv een nachtrit van 12 uur een dagrit van 17 uur. Kwam dus redelijk gaar aan in Mendoza. <br> De volgende dag ...

... stand in the old buildings and in the rows of grapes and hear about the old monks methods (or in my case guess the methods from bad Spanish) and how many of their techniques have carried on to today. Of course, the backdrop of the snow-covered Andes added something to the experience. <br><br>After the first place we decided to cycle to the furthest away point to ensure we got to see everything. Although very flat, cycling for almost an hour and an half was fairly tiring (and ...

... a catch up on sleep (our first night being very restless thanks to the government closing pretty much all night clubs in one measure to keep swine flu at bay by ´preventing´ people from congregating en mass, meaning most people simply brought their parties to the hostels... that said, if it wasn´t for the previous 20 hour bus trip and lack of sleep, we may have joined them!), the only way to recover was to take ourselves to one of the wine ...

Welp, we finally did some wine touring yesterday. Two wicked operations, yet quite different. One was Acheval Ferrer, an ultra-premium state of the art facility focusing on terroir expressive single vineyard Malbec. The tasting was amazing. We tasting barrel samples alongside current releases and the tour-women was killer. The second, was Carmelo Patti. This place ...

Got an Argentina company bus from San Martin de Los Andes to Mendoza and went semi cama, we felt like royals as we were fed ( even got hot pasta for dinner), movies and were totally looked after. It was great and we were happy to spend over 18hours on a bus! Mendoza is the wine capital of argentina so was needing a wee visit! Met an aussie couple ( Courtneys times two) as they both had the same name and met a ...

... day two of wine-tasting we decided to embrace the the most popular method of transportation between wine farms and rented bikes from a recommended local family business. The previous day we had seen many people flying past us on bikes from farm to farm, and we thought the biking seemed great but made rather dangerous by the ruthless passing trucks and cars as well as the alcohol flowing through the veins on a 30 degree Celsius afternoon. After a rather sobering two hour ...

... after 17 hour bus journey had been in mendoza for five minutes and now was without passport. also lost two jumpers, my journal, nationwide bank card (which i cancelled only to find it in amber´s purse the following day), memory card with loads of photos on (not all of which had been uploaded), my book and my head torch. arggghhhh. anyway, being dab hanfs at getting robbed now we did not panic too much but made our way to the police in the bus terminal. they ...

... all our bags searched, 2 hour stop over in Santiago, 1 hour on bus to airport, 3 hour wait for plane, 12 hours on plane to Auckland, 2 hours waiting, 3 hour plane to Sydney, 1 hour to tackle customs which were not as bad as we though, (Char got to keep her sleeping pills) then finally an hour to Melbourne, then 3 hours at airport to collect our parcel of clothes for work and lap top. Wow - arrived and now time for our next adventure - finding a job and somewhere to live!!

Another travel day of hell in my attempt to get from Iguazu to Mendoza...I love how they cancel flights without telling you. But hey, at the end of the day, I finally arrived in Mendoza and I used my billions of hours waiting around to catch up on my journal, so it wasn't that bad...We had an amazing week together, so it was worth the hassle!