Executive Hotel Mendoza

... delay out of JFK, then another 2 hour delay out of Buenos Aires. BUT...and they is always a but(t), we made it to Mendoza schweaty and haggard but relatively unscathed, cleaned up and headout out for the first of many steak dinners. Damn I´m glad ...

... in the south of the city. Tonight I travel to Buenos Aires which is a 15 hour, 1000km drive to the east. Booked an executive seat on the bus which was definitely the right decision. The seat is a big leather lazy-boy which reclines way-back with masses ...

... haglet tennisballer. Dette førte på kort tid til flom i både gater og elver - kaos! Et jordskjelv i 1861 jevnet Mendoza med jorden, og i oppbyggingen av byen hadde de det forventetede neste jordskjelvet i tankene; brede avenyer (for husmassene å falle ...

... I was able to find the beer bottled at a local artisan store.  To top off our stay we purchased tickets for an executive bus; this is basically an overnight bus where your seats are suppose to incline all the way to a bed.  Besides the bed, we ...

... to call hotels and see if they had any last minute cancellations. After some time we finally got the last available room in Mendoza - the executive suite - tres posh. But all in all, two nights in an executive suite and two round trip bus tickets were our ...

... last bus in Argentina we decided to splash out and go ‘Cama’. This is the higher quality of bus where you get executive ‘lazy-boy’ style reclining seats that you can properly curl up in like an armchair. As it turned out we hit ...

... at MOTO.  It is a well known molecular gastronomy restaurant with wild and wacky ingredients prepared and served in wild and wacky ways. Executive chef Homaro Cantu and pastry chef Ben Roche know how to shake it up.  It is located in the meat-packing ...

... be the experience of a lifetime to be there. The pink house behind me in many of my pictures is the Casa Rosada, or the executive building. We only spent 30 minutes here, but it was really a neat experience. While we walked around and took pictures we saw ...

The bus trip from Mendoza was an overnighter, we had executive seats that stretch out flat, so after a very ordinary meal and a couple of glasses of ropey red, we had slept for most of the 10 hour trip to Cordoba and arrived at 7.30 am. We hadn't got ...

Feb 15th - Buenos Aires This morning I made an executive decision (yet again). As I have been wearing the same clothes for the last 7 months (and no I didn't upgrade my wardrobe after being mistaken for a Colombian crack head on New Year's Eve) it was ...