Hyatt Mendoza

Attended the NSF-sponsored PASI workshop (http://www.ciara.fiu.edu/pasi/index.php) in Mendoza. I stayed at the Park Hyatt Mendoza for the duration of the workshop (5/15 to 5/21), but moved around the block for the remaining couple of nights. Highlights ...

Attended the NSF-sponsored PASI workshop (http://www.ciara.fiu.edu/pasi/index.php) in Mendoza. I stayed at the Park Hyatt Mendoza for the duration of the workshop (5/15 to 5/21), but moved around the block for the remaining couple of nights. ...

... has the consistency and taste of boiled hay...mixed with a dollop of mud). We also spent some time in the grounds of the Hyatt, Mendoza's best looking hotel equipped with its own wine bar (which we managed to stay away from!) and some great restaurants ...

So who knew Mendoza was so lovely? Everyone except us apparently. There's the joy of ignorance: always an opportunity to be pleasantly surprised. In the foothills of the Andes, Mandoza is built around 1,200 wineries. A charming tourist trap, the town ...

... of our travels, and marked something of a milestone. Throughout our wobbly weavings across the South American continent, we'd discussed Mendoza in far off terms, a distant point of reckoning that never seemed to draw any closer. And yet here, suddenly, ...

... the biggest room she had, that's where we stayed. We felt bad until we learned that this is apparently a big thing in Mendoza called "residenciales." When the town has big conventions or holiday weekends (we hit it on both counts), people open up their ...

... mosquito netting over the windows. This meant we slept well enough to get up relatively early and go to Maipu winetasting - the highlight of the Mendoza part for me. It took a while to have breakfast, walk to the bus stop, get the bus, hire bikes and get ...

... was real treat and we had an enormous quantity of food all washed down by the Salentien estate wines. After a short , 95 km, cruise into Mendoza we arrived at the main square and our hotel for the night. The city has a real buzz of a university town and ...

... early the next morning eager for a change of pace and ready for the next leg of our parents adventure. Love, Us. *Mendoza Trivia - 1.  Did you know that in the movie `Children of Men`, the parents of the youngest person on the planet ...

... -Salta trip and our seats (as far away from the toilets as was physically possible) turned out well! As a result we arrived in Mendoza Friday morning, fresh and ready to see the city. We had lunch with a few Norwegians and a chap called James from Durham ...

We made it! Jeff and I arrived at the Park Hyatt in Mendoza city for the night before heading south to Maipu to experience more relaxation and wine tasting. We would visit Mendoza city more properly after our voyage south. We rented another car (Jeff ...

Mendoza the wine region - oh the joy! We had a number of things we needed to do in Mendoza which started with a horse riding trek. As terrified as I am of these creatures when we reached the ranch in the Andes it was breathtaking. Now my horse was fine ...

... of 4 songs. The people were all seriously obsessed with this band and were wildly jumping around and singing along. When in Mendoza......I was jumping right along in no time and singing Spanglish, which really was just la-la-la type gibberish. The DJ ...

Another slow day. Lunch at the Hyatt's highly rated restaurant, Bistro M. The afternoon seems to drift away on the terrace, watching the world go by. My attempts to find hiking books of Chile and Arg continue to fail. Trekking stores only carry info ...

... a few phone calls to friends and family back home and checked into our new hotel. The hotel we´re staying in is the Park Hyatt Mendoza a 5 star havan of pure luxury and for 2 nights we decided to live it up. A sort of Christmas present and end of trip ...

Our last day at the hotel. After giving my bed a big hug and stealing a few miniature bottles of shampoo and shower gel. (didn't have room for the bathrobe) we headed down to the bus station. We had found out the night before that our mate Shane had just ...