I´m still in Bariloche despite wanting to go to Mendoza today. It seems that I am not the only person to whom a wine festival sounds appealing so all the buses were full. Thanfully, in the end I managed to get one of the two remaining seats for tomorrow and I won´t have to stay much longer in Bariloche. The town is nothing more than a tourist trap with badly designed alpine style buildings, ridiculous prices and worst of all, loads of St. Bernard dogs c...

I have managed eventually to leave Buenos Aires and head south to Bariloche in the Argentinian lake district but not before finally taking a cycling tour of the city. I saw the painted iron houses in La Boca and learnt much about the history of Buenos Aires, though it is possible that the guides might have been fabricating some of the stories. Needing to take a break between Buenos Aires and the forthcoming wine festival in Mendoza, I decided on Bariloche, a very...