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Argentina Wine Tours – Pickle Your Liver at Mendoza, Argentina
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 10 September 2009
Argentina is a magnificent country – and when you are there, you should check out many of the Argentina Wine Tours that are held in their wine growing regions. You can judge how ingrained a wine culture is in a country by simply buying the cheapest bottle of plonk to test how good it is.
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15: "To the north, to the desert: Part 4"
Blog: Dispatches from the Provinces of Argentina - 10 September 2009
Lucy and I got up and went to a café. I got coffee and pancakes with manjar, which is the Chilean dulce de leche. In Chile the coffee is almost always Nescafé. Nobody seems to no why.
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Some lazy days in Salta
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 8 September 2009
“Some lazy days in Salta” (a page from my Travel Journal) I reached Salta, a small city in the north of Argentina, at 8pm in the dark, after a spectacular bus ride over the Andes from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. I took a taxi from the bus terminal to the hotel I’d booked in the [...]
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Llama on the menu
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 6 September 2009
In the provinces of Salta and Jujuy where I have spent the last week or so, the regional specialty is llama. A little disconcerting at first since they´re so iconic to South America, but I suppose it´s a bit like us Aussies eating kangaroos. Anyway, we figured that we should try some llama meat, and we got it in a few forms...
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Mendoza, Argentina
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 4 September 2009
Miles of vineyards. The backdrop of the snowcapped Andes. Bottles and bottles of red wine. Mendoza is famous for being the heart of Argentinian wine country. It will be infamous for us as the place Patrick learned to ride a bike.
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¨...Beep beep, beep beep, yeah!¨
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 2 September 2009
Ok, so the road trip continues...
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14: "Party: Part 2"
Blog: Dispatches from the Provinces of Argentina - 1 September 2009
Sunday morning I got up at eleven. There had been a storm earlier in the morning and the drops woke me up but I fell back to sleep as the rain kept falling.
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The desert wilds
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 1 September 2009
Hola amigos!Feel like I haven´t written in a while, but I guess sometimes you need time to have the adventures before you can write about them!! And over the last week, there have been plenty of adventures! From getting kidnapped at the bus station by some crazy Europeans to suffering the effects of dizzying altitudes in the Argentinian highlands, the last few days have taken me through some of the most captivating scenery I´ve ever seen. I only hope I can do it justice in both describing and showing you (again, photos waiting on a computer capable of uploading them!)!!
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 31 August 2009
We're not sure if it was the food, the beautiful buildings, or the extremely favorable exchange rate, but we immediately fell in love with Buenos Aires. The city is made up of distinct neighborhoods, each with its own character, in a way that reminded us of Boston. Bohemian Palermo Viejo is filled with chic clothing boutiques and outdoor restaurants. San Telmo has a very European feel with its cobblestone streets, colonial architecture, and central plaza that hosts a massive flea market every Sunday.
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Parque Nacional Iguazú
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 31 August 2009
To see the amazing Iguazú waterfalls, you can choose one of two sides (if not both): the Brazilian or the Argentinian one. Now I guess from the Brazilian side might be easy to get there, because you have Foz do Iguaçu nearby which would make for easier and more connections (airport included), but I was [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Puerto Iguazu, Argentina
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 28 August 2009
A gloomy, rainy day greeted us on our arrival in Foz do Iguacu. Undeterred, we made our way by local bus to the falls, and the weather made for a dramatic setting for our first glimpse of the waterfalls.
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Iguazu falls
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 27 August 2009
I think there is something slightly magical about waterfalls, and the Iguazu Falls on the Argentinian and Brazilian border are absolutely no exception. People leave the place grinning like cheshire cats, and even the most tourist-attraction cynical traveller couldn´t help but be enchanted by Iguazu.
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¨Don´t cry for me...
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 24 August 2009
...Ar-gen-teeeeeee-na¨Evita. Eva Peron. Wife of former president Juan Peron and an infamous Argentinian much loved by her country for her charity work and her support of women's rights. Even in death, Evita still has something of a celebrity status, and to find out a bit more about this interesting figure I went to a museum that is entirely devoted to her life and times. It even had english translations!, a timeline of her life, and displays of a few of her outfits. I guess she is to Argentina what Princess Di was to Britain.
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La Exposición Rural in Buenos Aires
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 24 August 2009
What do Belgium and Argentina have in common, besides an affinity for eating fries with mayonnaise? Cows! Yup, we’re back from our big Ardennes getaway…and the first thing that came to mind as we drove through field after field of brown cows, white cows, black cows, gray cows, black and white cows….. was La Exposición Rural [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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13: "Party: Part 1"
Blog: Dispatches from the Provinces of Argentina - 23 August 2009
Saturday morning the doorbell rang at 8. It was Pablo, from Buenos Aires. He’d come to work at the Howard Johnson and wanted to shower and leave his bags at our house.
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A culinary tale
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 22 August 2009
From one national obsession to another, let me tell you a bit about Argentinians and their eating habits, which can appear a little bizarre.First of all, the timing for dining in Argentina is so late. Most restaurants are empty until at least 9 o´clock, and even at 11 you´ll see queues at the door to some places waiting to get a feed. Somehow though, this seems to work ok, and I seem to have adjusted to eating quite late relatively easily... although midnight after the soccer was potentially pushing my limits (I think my stomach was about to eat itself actually!).
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Cabalgata Larga in El Calafate
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 14 August 2009
When my two traveling partners suggested to go horse riding when we were in Patagonia, I agreed because I had to be democratic, although deep inside I didn’t feel at all like doing it. I thought my ass would hurt, the horses would rebel against me, and I think it was around that time that [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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11: "To the north, to the desert: Part 3"
Blog: Dispatches from the Provinces of Argentina - 9 August 2009
I got up at 8, showered, packed my bags, and walked to the terminal in Jujuy for my bus to Chile.
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10: "Dinners with Élo: Part 1"
Blog: Dispatches from the Provinces of Argentina - 6 August 2009
My roommate Daniel’s got a friend named Martin. His mom’s a French professor at UADER.One day he told me that Martin’s mom wanted to get me in touch with Élodie, a French girl who’s doing the same thing here as me but in the French department.So I got her e-mail and we made plans to meet for dinner.This was back in June, before winter break, yet.
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The Spectacular Bus Ride from San Pedro de Atacama to Salta
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 3 August 2009
‘The Spectacular Bus Ride from San Pedro de Atacama to Salta’ (a page from my Travel Journal) “Hurry, hurry…,” the man said to me, “the bus is leaving in a few minutes”. I was sure I was going to miss my bus to Salta. I arrived at the travel agency, as instructed when I bought my ticket, [...]
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El Buen Orden in Buenos Aires
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 30 July 2009
San Telmo is the oldest barrio (neighborhood) in Buenos Aires, full of colonial brick buildings, tango halls, cafés, old churches, and a gritty, authentic feel that all reflect the area’s past as the most multicultural and bohemian neighborhood in the city. So it’s no wonder that you can find tons of small shops selling antiques [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Lazy Sunday Photo: Les Éclaireurs Lighthouse in Ushuaia
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 26 July 2009
Les Éclaireurs Lighthouse – Wikipedia Map of Location – Google Maps Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 11 July 2009
The Feria de Mataderos is the real deal. There are other basic Sunday markets in the Buenos Aires neighborhoods of Recoleta, La Boca, and San Telmo where you can get cool jewelry, handcrafts, paintings and caricatures, etc. But the Feria de Mataderos is a real experience and worth the 45-minute bus trip from the center. Colectivo [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Tired of Argentine food yet?
Blog: Long Life in Buenos Aires - 3 July 2009
I am. Have been since week 1. Whoever left Argentina out of the spice trade those few thousand years ago, bad move. But there's hope! Oooh and hope tastes like honey and flaky phyllo and nuts and spice.
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el gripe, Macs, and an angry Jew.
Blog: Long Life in Buenos Aires - 2 July 2009
All over the city, people are scrunching their scarves up over their mouths and noses hoping to avoid the coughs and sighs and sneezes of strangers. Even school's out for swine flu. All the universities and schools have closed to stop the spread of H1N1. So the exam I have on tuesday? NOPE. NOT GUNNA HAPPEN. Sin embargo, I'm still waiting to find out if I'm going to have to do something else, like a write a paper or something to make up for it.
