We pull into Bariloche beautifully situated at the other end of Lake Nahuel Huapi at the foot of Cerro Otti. Another tourist town geared for winter skiing with numerous hotels, bed and breakfast lodgings, expensive restaurants and chocolate shops amongst its chalet-style stone and wooden buildings. At this point the car gave up, completely refusing […]

We move on to Villa La Angostura taking a route known as the ‘Seven Lakes Drive‘. The road was unpaved, the surface not too bad but topped with loose stone, some of them rather large, and the underside of our magnificent car took a considerable hammering after which 5th gear disappeared. The seven lakes were […]

We are hiring a car to drive through the country. Of course I had planned the journey with my usual military precision but, unfortunately, this collapsed at the first sign of trouble: the hire car company had rented out the car they reserved for us until the following day so that we had to choose […]

We returned to Buenos Aires for the final of the polo having collected Lauren who took a bus from Santiago for a happy mother and daughter reunion. The game was the first maximum handicap in the history of the competition with all eight players holding a perfect 10. Despite the clouds threatening rain, it remained […]

We fly to Mendoza, a city of 800,000 people situated 1,100km west of Buenos Aires at the foot of the Andes. We have come here to taste the wines from the largest wine-producing area in Argentina. Besides wine, Mendoza is famous for being the point at which the liberator, Jose de San Martin set out […]

We went looking for street tango. I had thought that there was plenty of tango available to watch and so we went to view in San Telmo, just a short walk from the centre of the city. It turned out that it was a 10 block street market that sold every kind of tourist trinket […]

Hurrah! We have arrived in Buenos Aires. We have both been looking forward to coming to this great city that we hope our great expectations will not lead to inevitable disappointment. But as we glided into the port on the ferry we were bathed in the bright sunshine of late spring, lovely warm temperature and […]