Thursday started with great intentions of doing some city exploring and going to see some of the tourist attractions in the city. We wanted to go and visit the snake house but for some reason it never quite happened and before you knew it it was siesta and we'd lounged around all day. We decided to make up for our morning laziness by going out in the evening and, after teaching Julio a few card drinking games, we headed out. We keep being drawn towards the same...

The last 3 days have been completely dominated by rugby. Well, that and the unbelievable amount of pain we're both in but that comes from the rugby. After the session on Monday we discovered that Alexandra had organised that we go train for another team so on Tuesday night we made our way to club number 2 for another physical and knackering session. Although the new club was nice the group we trained in was much bigger and it often felt like we were getting ignor...

Another filled few days! I promise i'll stop bothering you with these as regularly when it all settles down into a routine but until then it's the easiest way to remember everything so you'll just have to keep reading :) The day after the glorious win against France we returned to the same pub for the Ireland Scotland game and battled away with the waitress in there who can't understand you (even when you speak Spanish) and gets your order wrong, if she brings an...

Incredibly busy last couple of days though starting to get more settled in and getting used to the accent a bit! Yesterday we spent pretty much all day wandering around Mendoza hopelessly lost as we both decided to leave the understanding of instructions home to each other... After getting on the SAME wrong bus 4 times and seeing a sign to Buenos Aries we gave up and got a taxi. Went out to a local bar to play pool in the evening which is an excellent way to kill...

Hello everybody that´s reading this, i´m writing this, my very first post, in an internet cafe just off the main street of Mendoza called St. Martin. It´s safe to say I´ve had virtually no idea what´s been going on around me while i´ve been here so far. It turns out i understand about 4 words of Spanish and can say about 11. The speed people talk is absoultely terrifying so i´ve been basically eitehr laughing or saying si and hoping to god that´s an accep...