Hopping About

To break up our bus journey from Mendoza to San Carlos de Bariloche, we take a bus trip to La Payunia, a park with hundreds of volcanoes.

La Payunia day trip from Malarguë

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When we’d had enough steak and wine in Mendoza, we started planning how to get to our next destination, Bariloche. It turned out that it was nightbus or bust to get there, and that the

We spend 2 nights and 3 days in Mendoza, enough to sample some of the wines the region has to offer, and we get our first taste of the high Andes.

Mendoza – Wines and the Andes

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For us, Mendoza was best known for being the centre of the Argentinian wine production. So when we entered the city, we figured it would be full of wine shops and tour operators offering vineyard

Antares is the first place in Argentina we came across that were more than just refreshing, they have taste.

Hopspot: Antares in Córdoba

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During our stay in Argentina, we'd come across a few craft beers, but none had really made an impression on us. As we walked into Anteres in Córdoba however, we were greeted with that typical

We spend a day in Córdoba, Argentina’s second city, exploring the different areas of the city on foot, going between colonial heritage and trendy bars.

We arrived in Córdoba after a long journey involving multiple buses to find that the pictures of the hostel we’d booked had been taken by a skilled photographer, choosing angles to hide that this place

We piece together Argentina’s myriad bus options to make our way from Puerto Iguazu to Cordoba.

Three-part camel ride to Cordoba

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We spent hours – really, hours – trying to decide how to get out of Puerto Iguazu. We’d only planned the first week of our trip (beach – city – waterfalls, please) and had decided

Our one week experience in Brazil summarised.

One week in Brazil

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We started our 6-month South America trip in the south-western corner of Brazil, mainly because the flight connection to Sao Paulo Guaralhos airport worked best for us. As we’re not big city people we skipped

We visit both the Brazilian and Argentinian side of the Iguazu falls and discover they’re very different.

Iguazu Falls – Brazilian and Argentine sides

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We decided to spend one day at the Brazilian side of the falls and another at the Argentine side, and what a difference there was. (more…)

We initially use Curitiba as a halfway point to break up our journey, but find out that it is a vibrant, diverse and modern city, very much worth visiting.

Curitiba

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Curitiba is a city about halfway between Sao Paolo and Iguazu Falls, and that’s really why we chose to visit it. Our flight was into Sao Paolo and we wanted to see the falls, but

We spend a couple of days on Ilha do Mel, a small car free island in southern Brazil that is famous for its beaches and absence of cars.

Ilha do Mel

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The island of honey is a small island in the bay of Paranagua, only a few hours away from Curitiba. On land, motorised transport is banned, and even it if wasn’t, the roads are little

Normandy and Jersey

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In June 2019, we were lucky enough to get invited to a family celebration on Jersey, one of the channel islands off the French coast. We planned to drive there, and booked a ferry from