Such a strange arrangement of circumstances, when similarity repeated refuses to become tedious, instead becomes all the more enthralling. Welcome to Sayta where days and nights roll together in a barely perceptible tidal ebb and flow, the hypnotic rhythm predictable and all the more entrancing for being so. There is asado for lunch every day […]
The far too brief handover from dinner to breakfast takes place over the typically pithy sweet bread and tea; this new day starting barely distinct from the previous. Nursing a healthy dose of withdrawals from our continuous alcohol lifestyle we are bizarrely not offered wine for breakfast from the punishing hospitality at Sayta. More wine […]
Our final evening in Salta delivered a more entertaining affair, it was a Saturday night after all. However Salta as a city wasn’t the cause for much excitement, we met up with Arnaud, our French friend that we met in Chile for Christmas and New years. As was the case then, such is the case […]
We all know a name don’t we, that sad state of affairs with both the person and the fame itself competing to comment most insultingly on all of us. Like a great archaeological urn: beautiful, powerful, valuable and all together empty of everything it hints at containing; Not to mention fake, disappointment is its currency. […]
The heart throbs and the pulse races, we are surrounded by fire consuming and making fuel of any new shoot intent on bland staid endeavours. This fire is all consuming, bubbling unseen below the surface of every daily act akin to the eternal grinding movement of the earth below. We are where the earth literally […]
As the saying goes, today is a new day and the travelling day to be forgotten is all behind us leaving us to get out and see yet another place on this journey. What to say about Cafayate? Well to be honest we don’t really know, this journey north is more unplanned than usual and […]
We set off on our journey, straining livers all too pleased to be departing Mendoza; but for where? We set off up north towards Salta but for a stop into Cafayate, another wine growing region so we can’t say for sure if the livers are cheering or cowering in fear at this point. Mendoza has […]
On any other day, in any other place yesterday would be considered an alcohol day. However the obvious must be said, Mendoza is not just any other place and today has waited its time to shine. The afternoon siestas create a fantastic if yet still unfamiliar phenomenon for us, we’re up and ready to go […]
With the last couple of days being an exercise in indulgent luxury the quartet is back together and heading off to the hot springs in the foothills of the Andes. Hot springs appear to be a more regular phenomenon than I had expected, the Andes are active and alive like no other range, bursting with […]
Today is the day, we have restrained we have resisted but today is indeed the day for flood gates to open and drown us in wine; what a delightful image. Our driver arrives bang on time and we head off to pick up the girls and get going into a day of indulgent wine, food […]
Charlie and Steve's Excellent Adventure 