Arrived something like 3 in the morning (thank you supid Aerolineas) and we sayed in the Monkey Inn Hostel (where I had a little inceden with the toilet and managed to block it). Because we arrived so late, we could not book any excursions the day before, or at least the excursions hat start early in the morning, so a "walking around day and getting to know the city day it would be"! We will leave the wine tasing for tomorrow....The town reminds me a lot about Stellenbosch, student town in SA, where wine is king as well. The place is also a lot bigger than I was expecting it to be. Stopped over at a nice coffee shop (Havana Cafe) for a great cookie and fabolous coffee. Stephanie was looking around for clothes, and I was walking in and out of the hiking shops getting information on Aconcugua (highest mountain in South America). I was really just a chill out day. Biggest dissapointment of the day was he steak a ordered in the evening for dinner, which was terrible. Big let down!
11 November 2010
It was wine tasing day today! We decided on Mr Hughes wine tasting, as this was the recommendation that I go from Richard. The bus to Mr Hugo was a real pain in the back side and took a lot longer than I had anticipated, meaning we would have less time to get through all of our vinyards and tasting. The wine area was very weird, and completely not what I was expecting. It is also located ouside of town, but in a very what seems to be a dirty and poor area. The wine tasting basiclaly works that you rent a bike and then bike to the various vinayrds and slurp away on the wine. Cycling around on he rode was a bit dodgy, as the roads are very small and there was a constant stream of trucks and cars driving bye pretty quick, so not the best area to be cycling (let alone with wine in your system as well). The smart move is to cycle to the furthest vinyard and then make your way back to Mr Hughes. First time on the trip with Stephanie that we met some South Africans at the wine tasting, which we had a very nice chat to. Our trip started around 2pm, and the vinayards close it 6pm, and in the end, we could only visit 3 (our plan was to do 5). When we finsihed at Mr Hugo´s, ge have us some really cheap red wine which later really hit me for a 6. Also trying to go out for meat and wine in the evening afer a wine tasting is not a god idea and would not recommend! In general, the wine quality was very good and cheap. I also blocked the toilet (again)..... I am however still looking for the perfect Argentina steak.....
12 November 2010
Because of all of the mess with our flighs, I headed to the Aerolineas office in town to confirm our flights. Surprise, surprise, the fligh from BA to Bariloche was cancelled (we were travelling to BA and then to Bariloche the same day). So the lady could at leats give us a direct flight from mendoza to Bariloche, but it meant we had to saty another day in mendoza and loose out on a day in Bariloche (which both of us were not happy about, as there is no much else to do in Mendoza other than drink wine, which we have had more han enough at this stage). We got some free vouchers for dinner and accomodation that night. The owner of the hostel put us up at his bb in town, which was nice becasue it had a pool, nice nig bed, kicthen etc... There was not much to do this day as we bascially already saw and did everything we waned, so we ended up having another chil day (which was good afer the heavy day of wine drinking the day before). I just collcted the laundry in town and then we headed for a few casual beers at 6. Ended up staying a lot later than planned and only left around 12 ish (at least having a better steak this time). Amazing to see how late people go to dinner here in Argie, where people will still come sit down at 11pm to have dinner (normally the time I am in bed!). And the other weird thing mnetioning, is the siesta in Mendoza. Everything shuts down from 11 to about 3 or in the afternoon, as people are taking their sleep (apperently the weather is too hot to work during his time - please, do not come to Cayman!)
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