Patagonia is known to be where the world ends. Or is it where the world starts mused my guide, Dennis, as we sat sheltering from the rain and the 100mph wind that had whipped up as we hiked up Cerro Paine in Chile’s famed Torres del Paine National Park.
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Buzzing Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires has a lot going for it. A cosmopolitan and culturally rich city, it combines European influences (it was rebuilt in the early 20th Century and modelled on Paris and Madrid) with true Latin atmosphere and a passion entirely its own.
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The Gaucho and the Grape - Adventures in Argentina
"I haven't been on a horse in 35 years! I said nervously. "Not since Bouncer lived up to his name throwing me off and bolting, dragging me behind with one foot stuck in a stirrup".
Arriving at Estancia Los Potreros, near Córdoba in Argentina, I hadn't expected to get back in the saddle. I was there to see what a stay on an Estancia held for the non-rider. But after a lunch with the wonderful hosts and owners, Louisa and Kevin, I was introduced to Rebenque and up I was.
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