Mendoza, Argentina
Kara says:
Mendoza. You really should come to Mendoza - fancy a bit of sun, relaxation, wine, good food? This is the spot. We got pretty excited after a few weeks in Patagonia when our flesh actually got to see the light of day again and the thermals were consigned to the rucksack. Mendoza is a ridiculously pleasant city of about a million people, so many trees you can barely see the footpaths, leafy plazas every second block, lots of restaurants and cafes (you can eat outside!!! without getting cold! even at night-time!) to just sit at and watch the world go by. And just when you think it can get any more perfect - wineries! And even an irish bar to watch the latest defeat.
Ye olde time photo of me and my high nelly outside a winery and photo of the entrance to a huge and extremely pleasant park in Mendoza that has the Andes as a backdrop.
So of course in between all the relaxing we went to hunt down some wineries. We hired bikes, I got my beloved high nelly and Karl got a vile contraption that would only go two miles an hour. We followed the helpful signs, battled the traffic and found some vineyards. See photo of barrels and fermentation tanks in one winery - it was great, you got to just wander around all alone in a functioning winery among all the tanks and barrels and hoses and whatnot. Not entirely convinced we didn't wander into somewhere we shouldn't have been. Also went to a smaller winery where everything's done by hand right down to putting the label on the bottle. And sampled some wine obviously.
Photo of Karl living the hard life at lunch in one of the vineyards.
Mendoza. You really should come to Mendoza - fancy a bit of sun, relaxation, wine, good food? This is the spot. We got pretty excited after a few weeks in Patagonia when our flesh actually got to see the light of day again and the thermals were consigned to the rucksack. Mendoza is a ridiculously pleasant city of about a million people, so many trees you can barely see the footpaths, leafy plazas every second block, lots of restaurants and cafes (you can eat outside!!! without getting cold! even at night-time!) to just sit at and watch the world go by. And just when you think it can get any more perfect - wineries! And even an irish bar to watch the latest defeat.
Ye olde time photo of me and my high nelly outside a winery and photo of the entrance to a huge and extremely pleasant park in Mendoza that has the Andes as a backdrop.
So of course in between all the relaxing we went to hunt down some wineries. We hired bikes, I got my beloved high nelly and Karl got a vile contraption that would only go two miles an hour. We followed the helpful signs, battled the traffic and found some vineyards. See photo of barrels and fermentation tanks in one winery - it was great, you got to just wander around all alone in a functioning winery among all the tanks and barrels and hoses and whatnot. Not entirely convinced we didn't wander into somewhere we shouldn't have been. Also went to a smaller winery where everything's done by hand right down to putting the label on the bottle. And sampled some wine obviously.
Photo of Karl living the hard life at lunch in one of the vineyards.
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