Bets on... did it fall on Nicki´s turn?

Now we are doing a whirlwind tour of Argentina, trying to fit in all the top spots but unfortunately the tops spots are all over 1000km appart. Luckily the buses here are incredable, spacious, reclining padded seats, breakfast lunch and dinner served, movies and even Bingo to keep us entertained.

Anyway, Mendoza , where at last the weather felt warmer and we got to chill out in parks and resurrected our summer clothes from the depths of the rucsacs:

Then our wine tour. We hopped on a local bus and got out into the countryside where the bus driver left us off at Mr. Hugo´s bike rentals. We got kitted out with perfect touring bikes, talked through a route to the best winaries with Mr. Hugo and pedaled of on our happy giddey way:

We visited different types of winaries, from museums, old, modern, family run and enjoyed each one for what they had to offer (wine!):

Out with the old....

... and in with the new:

Autumn coloured vines:

No grapes this time of year, but oranges instead:

It reminds me of factories that went on behing Bosco´s magic door:

Sampling:

Along the way, we met a British couple, Jenny and Ian, who are not only doing a cycling tour of Mendoza but of South America:

Nicki going professional:

Then the municiple tourist police started rounding up the merry cyclists so we wobbled our way back to Mr. Hugo´s, enjoying the fantastic coloured avenues on the way:

I´m a town behing with this blog. Now we are in Rosario just north of Buenos Aires and will be heading on to Corrientes. As always, photos to come!

xxx R & N