Hello folks - a technical recently deprived me of some of my belongings which is rather unfortunate... two gentlemen from Mendoza with sharp eyes, fast feet, teamwork, and "
cojones".
OK - update with photos from Vic´s camera - the order is slightly confusing at the moment but ill fall into a system again for future posts...
Ahora, estamos cuatro!
Chief likes his coffee!
http://picasaweb.google.com/VictoriaStranock/BuenosAiresAndMendoza?authkey=Gv1sRgCNuG25Pmn8Sg2QE#5313514944332038546
Anyway, apart from losing my camera and other items, myself and Vic had a cracking time in Mendoza during which we again rented a car and did a little 2 day tour of some spots in the Pre Cordillera foothills of the Andes. We found a different and even smaller hostel at about 2000 metres, and stayed there for a night, going for a few hours of walking in the fresh air the next day before returning to Mendoza.
Prior to that we did a day of wine-tasting, made possible by bicycles and a little map, during which we enjoyed the fine wines of 3 different vineyards of various types (not wishing to give away too much free advertising, the tour of Mendoza´s Weinert winery was astounding, especially the cellar with it´s ridiculous quantities of exceptional wines undergoing the slow process of becoming perfect inside their vast oak barrels. Perhaps you can find wines from that place in some UK wine stores... Very nice.
Thanks to vic for all the photos in this post!
So.... i have a lack of photographs. Vic has taken some of the last 2 weeks, and eventually i will post some of them, but for now we will have to drop temporarily back into a text-based blog...
Plans. Well, we have now been joined in Buenos Aires by 2 very good friends, Alex & Claire, who arrived from London yesterday. Within a few days we plan to head North to see the waterfalls of Iguazu, and then the current plan is to continue up into Paraguay and see what is up there, traverse roughly westwards to Bolivia, and follow on with visits to the north of Chile and Peru.
This change of plan is mostly due to monetary pressures which mean that heading for cheaper countries and avoiding the vast distances and relatively large costs of returning to the South of the continent is a necessity. Of course the plans will change again but the others are satisfied that heading to the wastes of Patagonia and making the most of it will require another trip for another time.
It will be of interest to anyone following this blog to have a look at
http://www.disableddonkey.blogspot.com/ which the the website of my co-travellers (mainly Alex AKA Chief), and where will appear photos and some more news of whats going on... The name has significance but would require more than a post to explain, so i will leave that as their enigmatic secret...!
OK, thats all for now.
Rob
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