League of Winos

Day 4. It has not taken long to get used to the south American way of life. After a day or so of comparing everything we saw / smelt / ate / understood to England, we can now get on and enjoy everything at face value. Our Spanish is still very rusty, but that will have to change next week when we are sent to our allocated towns in Chile. Yesterday was spent cycling and wine tasting in mendoza's vineyards which was incredible. Slightly merry, we even got a police motorcade escort back from the vineyards, we are not sure whether this was the result of straying into a less salubrious end of town or (more likely) Thea's erratic cycling.

Mmmm, malbec

Well we made it to the first stop, albeit minus a few inconsequential possessions we have scattered along our journey...probably wise to have left my book about a plane crash victim in the andes safely on the plane! Jonny is down a few toiletries so is now smelling delightfuly ladylike, he loves it really! We are in a state of indecisive jetlag, not sure if we are tired or hungry, wired or confused, whether the wine is red or white, but we're necking it anyway...