As we said we would, we hit the beaches in Uruguay. We went from small beach town to bigger beach town to huge beach resort. Everywhere was pretty quiet, the season ended at the end of Feb and that literally means everything stops and shops and restaurants close down until next summer, it was eerily quiet in some places - one place we were 2 of 4 in the whole hostel (and the town it felt like too). But none the less it meant the beches were empty and that was lov...

As we said we would, we hit the beaches in Uruguay. We went from small beach town to bigger beach town to huge beach resort. Everywhere was pretty quiet, the season ended at the end of Feb and that literally means everything stops and shops and restaurants close down until next summer, it was eerily quiet in some places - one place we were 2 of 4 in the whole hostel (and the town it felt like too). But none the less it meant the beches were empty and that was lov...

We have finally put up some more photos for your amusement! They are of Bariloche and our trip to the glacier. We chose to do a mini trek on the glacier and it was fab. First we went to the balconies which have been built in front of the glacier, and whilst we were there we saw huge chunks from the face of the glacier fall off, it was very exciting just like you see on TV documentaries! Next we took a boat which takes you close to the face of the glacier and got ...

Well since our last update we have been busy. Mendoza was a lovely little town, and the wine was amazing. We sampled as much as we could each night with our huge steak dinners and would highly recommend any wine from Mendoza to all you people back home buying wine. We did a wine tour to a couple of local vine yards as well as an olive oil factory! The free wine we got was not so great but the absinth we got at another place made up for it! Whilst in Mendoza we al...

Howdy partners, yes we are now fully fledged gauchos having done some horseriding today. We went on a private trek in the mountains around Cordoba, it was beautiful scenery and even i enjoyed the horse riding! John got assigned the horse called "show off" and i got Piranha. They were both very well behaved - oh and we had to ride them one handed - its the gaucho way they are trained so don´t respond to two handed rein action. As you can imagine we wer...