We arrived in Mendoza on Thursday morning about a 15 hour coach journey from BA. The coaches are ace here, 160 degree reclining seats, films, blankets and pillows, but the funniest food arrangements! We were due to start at Intercultural Language School on Monday so had a few days to look around, before we moved into our host family house. We joined up with a 
couple called Zoe and Paul to do a wine and bike tour around the bodegas in Maipu, just outside Mendoza. It wasn´t quite the idyllic and relaxing trip we had imagined. The bodegas are quite far apart and you had to share the roads in between with buses and lorries, constantly overtaking us but judging it pretty thinly! We survived and visited 4 bodegas, covering about 30km, and drinking our own body weight in wine!
couple called Zoe and Paul to do a wine and bike tour around the bodegas in Maipu, just outside Mendoza. It wasn´t quite the idyllic and relaxing trip we had imagined. The bodegas are quite far apart and you had to share the roads in between with buses and lorries, constantly overtaking us but judging it pretty thinly! We survived and visited 4 bodegas, covering about 30km, and drinking our own body weight in wine!
On Sunday we moved over to Godoy Cruz and to our home for the week, casa de Malena! Other students stay at Malena´s house and while we were there there was also Denise (from Canada) and Merrian (from Brazil), as well as the house pets - Cato the gato, possibly the ugliest and most scared cat ever, and Flash the 20 year old tortoise! Malena is the most amazing cook and it was amazing to get home made meals every night, Tortás, Pasta fresci, roasted mini pùmpkins, mmmm! Although it´s taken a few days to get used to eating so late over here, 10pm at the earliest. Spanish school was hard, speaking English is banned inside so communicating is tricky when you only know a few words, I think we picked up a few things but definitely still need some serious practice. 
We´re both suffering from some serious hangovers today after 2 nights of drinking. Last night we went to a great little club but we didn´t get there till 2am and only got to bed at 5.30am! It´s definitely necessary to have a siesta here if you want to live like the Argentinos do! We leave Mendoza tomorrow night, heading down to Patagonia, starting with a few days in El Bolson by the lake district before heading down to El Calafate, the perito Moreno glaciar and then down to Torres del Paine in Chile.
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