Thursday Not having been in Calgary for the last few Stampedes, Tara was quite excited by the idea of spending a few days in San Antonio de Areco, home of the Argentinian gauchos (cowboys). We liked the town straight away. The streets were lined with orange trees giving the whole town a nice fresh smell. The people there were super-friendly as w...

Hi Everyone, On Thursday we took a tour to San Antonio de Areco about 120kms from Buenos Aires. It is the most famous town in Argentina for preserving the gaucho culture (cowboys). As it is Winter here and not so busy we were the only two people on the tour so was fantastic, we had a tour guide all to ourselves. on our way he gave us a history o...

With Maria joining us for two weeks I thought weŽd take it easy and not travel about too much. But weŽve ended up doing a shocking 3,500km in less than two weeks (Sydney to Cairns is about 3,000km and took us two months!). Argentina is massive. I probably shouldnŽt abmit this but the reports IŽd heard of wine on long distance bus journeys were o...