Argentina – The Travelogue.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gavin Greene — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:00:45 +0000

Having blown our budget on some other hotels, we were staying in an Airbnb in the Palermo Soho neighbourhood. It was a cosy little place, with a balcony and a swimming pool on the roof terrace, and as seems to be standard with Airbnbs, an extremely complicated system of keys and codes to get in and out of the apartment. As we were on the third week, of our honeymoon, we took it fairly light…

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Mendoza, Argentina

Gavin Greene — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:00:29 +0000

We hailed a cab outside the airport and headed to our hotel. It was already autumn in Mendoza, and the sun was setting, making the orange and red leaves even more vivid in the evening light. The journey to our hotel went alongside the many canals and irrigation systems on which the vineyards rely. We were staying in a hotel called Lares de Chacras, a little boutique place on the edge of the…

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The Iguazu Falls, Brazil & Argentina

Gavin Greene — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:00:24 +0000

Our flight from Rio to Foz do Iguaçu arrived pretty late, so we’d arranged a cheap hostel for a night. At Tetris Container Hostel, the reception, restaurant and rooms are made out of 15 separate shipping containers. Even the swimming pool is an old container. After a delayed flight and some airport faffing, we finally got into bed at about 2am, only to be serenaded by a Frenchman singing in the…

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