We are now in buenos aires, having spent a week in Mendoza. In Mendoza we did a bikes and wine tour where we visited 4 wineries, 2 of which with their own vineyards on site! As part of the tour we rode between the wineries, and in each winery we got 3-4 glasses of wine to try (unfortunately not full glasses) the wineries ranged in size from making 100k to 1.8million bottles a year! We took it relatively easy the rest of our time in Mendoza but did a fair bit of walking around the cities massive park! We found the Liverpool pub, with typical beatles posters for decor, though the maps of Scotland and Wales where some what confusing!!!
So a 15 hour bus ride saw us arrive in buenos aires, only to find everything, including mcdonalds, closed apparently because of the census! Also in the time we where travelling the ex president(the current presidents husband) had died, the main square outside the presidential palace was filled with mourners waving flags, carrying flowers, and displaying messages of support. On thursday we again walked to the presidential square where railings had been setup to herd the mourners into see the casket lying in state, along with this Thursday has traditionally seen protesters march upon the palace to air their grievances, this was no different as the roads were filled with the sounds of drums and chanting! The coffin has now left BsAs and is to be buried in Patagonia somewhere!
Katie bought a pair of jarg ray ban sunglasses, only for the weather to totally change from glorious sun to heavy, constant rain!
In BsAs there is an area named soho which on a Saturday all the bars open in the day and allow local designers to display their designs, and there are some really cool little shops!
We have been introduced to beer pong, an overactive drinking game, that if neither team are very good you don't drink very much! Also found a herbal Argentine spirit called fernet, it's 43% and tastes a little bit weird.
Thursday night a guy got knocked over by a car infront of our very eyes, what made it worse was the total lack of communication skills, to see if he was ok, even though he did walk away from it!
We keep losing our bottle over buying stuff because the exchange rate is 6 to 1 so things seem expensive when they are actually really cheap, like a kilo of fillet steak in the supermarket is about 6 quid an that's in the capital!
Well we take the boat to Montevideo(Uruguay) on Monday and have about 10 days there before returning to BsAs for a few more days before heading to the colder south!
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