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Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Mendoza

And so we're here now in Mendoza. For those whose South American geography is "lacking", Mendoza is more or less due east of Santiago in Chile, just on the other side of the Andes. It's a prosperous university city, one of Argentina's biggest, and a big wine-producing area (more trips to vineyards are in the offing!).

We arrived early this morning, about 6am, and waited an hour before heading to our hotel. It turned out to be great value - things are getting cheaper as we head northwards, it seems -, since we've got a huge room with private bath, fan, cable TV and a big breakfast for Ar$30 (about 6 pounds). For comparison, in San Martín, Ar$40 got us two dorm beds with shared bath.

After a doze to sleep off the effects of the bus journey we caught up on the news from BBC World (we sat through an hour of commentary about the Hutton Report, not really understanding what was going on - we've been away too long, obviously!). Breaking news: some top BBC honcho is resigning. After watching an episode of the current series of Friends (don't you just love cable TV?) we headed out into Mendoza to explore.

We're off back to our hotel now, and we have a bit of a dilemma. The tenedor libre doesn't open until 20.30, and there's a new episode of The West Wing (our favourite drama by a long way!) at 22.00. Can we stuff enough in in one and a half hours? The buffet doesn't close until 00.30, but could we wait that long? (We haven't had lunch, in preparation!). Oh, such difficult decisions!

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