Mendoza!

Arriving in Mendoza after a breath-taking, although slightly tiring, journey over the Andes we moved to our hosts house in Godoy Cruz. A young family with a couple of adorable children, we instantly clicked - so much so that we spent three weeks there!

We enjoyed the wine festival by getting involved in some festivities and of course trying lots of wine. After one particular wine fueled night we fell asleep and managed to sleep straight through the earthquake, apparently no-one else on the street did but we didn't feel a thing.
That morning we headed up to the mountains for a weekend of camping in the Andes. Finding an abandoned train station we all set up camp there and made a giant asado. After a surreal night we woke up to visit the areas of interest: the mountains, lakes, Chilean border and the Puente del Inca.
Puente del Inca is a beautiful natural bridge formed by mineral deposits and is surrounded by an extremely sulfurous river. People dump all sorts of things in the river to petrify them (bottles, toys and even shoes) and then sell these useless objects to tourists. Interesting.
It was a slightly unlucky trip resulting in a bumped hire car, broken digital camera and diarrhea but good fun all the same.
After a couple weeks sorting out teaching and writing work, we found a house to move into and are sharing with a nice mix of South Americans and Europeans. It feels like we have found home, well for a while at least.