Jan. 31
1. get a bus to mendoza that doesnt stop every 3 hours.
we stopped like 4 times during the night. everytime i opened my eyes i felt like we were entering an even sketchier bus terminal. the one good thing about getting woken up in the middle of the night was I got to see the incredible stars. it was just beautiful.
we stopped like 4 times during the night. everytime i opened my eyes i felt like we were entering an even sketchier bus terminal. the one good thing about getting woken up in the middle of the night was I got to see the incredible stars. it was just beautiful.
2. do NOT, under any circumstance, stay at the Lifehouse hostel.
in a desperate attempt to get a hostel, we just called one and booked ourselves. how different could hostels really be? WRONG. so very wrong. we get in and the only people there are locals. no foreigners. the guy at the front shows us to our room. which we think is perfect because it is a room of 4 and there are three of us. we walk in to find a guy in his late 60´s who has CLEARLY moved into the room and has been living there for a long time. it reaks of smoke and i see 3 packs of cigarrets on his night stand. ironically, next to them are 3 inhalers. he has all his toileteries lined nicely in the bathroom. his dirty laundry on the chair. and his clothes hung and folded perfectly in the closet. WEIRD. SKETCHY. TERRIFYING. are all words that came to my head.
in a desperate attempt to get a hostel, we just called one and booked ourselves. how different could hostels really be? WRONG. so very wrong. we get in and the only people there are locals. no foreigners. the guy at the front shows us to our room. which we think is perfect because it is a room of 4 and there are three of us. we walk in to find a guy in his late 60´s who has CLEARLY moved into the room and has been living there for a long time. it reaks of smoke and i see 3 packs of cigarrets on his night stand. ironically, next to them are 3 inhalers. he has all his toileteries lined nicely in the bathroom. his dirty laundry on the chair. and his clothes hung and folded perfectly in the closet. WEIRD. SKETCHY. TERRIFYING. are all words that came to my head.
i then find out that there is only one key to our room. ONE. how crazy is that? then i find out there are no security lockers. at this point, Shara and i want to move...ASAP. so xavier, kind as he is, goes on the hunt to try and find a different place for us to stay. after a lot of effort, he came back with not many possibilities.
3. dont come to mendoza on a saturday afternoon and only have sunday to visit the bodegas. but, if that happens, dont take no for an answer.
we find out that the bodegas, the wineries, close at 6pm and are not open tomorrow since it is Sunday. at this point i am freaking out. we did NOT come all this way to not go to the bodegas. so we lock our stuff up in the main office and get a ride to bikesandwine, a bike company for touring the bodegas. people keep telling us that it was too late to go to the bodegas, but we were persistant and got ourselves to the bodega in time to see 2 of them!
El Cerno-that was the first bodega we went to (6). we tried 3 different wines and I liked the Malbec best
La Familia de Tomaso-the second bodega (7). it was super cute. the tour and wine tasting was much better. it was much more informative and personal. we tried 3 Malbecs: a young, an older, and really old. we also got to try the families first attempt at their own variety. it was very sweet and more like a dessert wine.
4. not all steak is created equal.
i ordered what i thought xavier got the other night and when it came out, i swear they had just cut the fat off of everyone elses steak and tossed it on my plate. gross. luckily shara and xavier were generous enough to share.
5. dont put on a fan if there has been smoke in the room. and dont dare move if you are in a Lifehouse hostel bed...you might kill the person underneath you.
3. dont come to mendoza on a saturday afternoon and only have sunday to visit the bodegas. but, if that happens, dont take no for an answer.
we find out that the bodegas, the wineries, close at 6pm and are not open tomorrow since it is Sunday. at this point i am freaking out. we did NOT come all this way to not go to the bodegas. so we lock our stuff up in the main office and get a ride to bikesandwine, a bike company for touring the bodegas. people keep telling us that it was too late to go to the bodegas, but we were persistant and got ourselves to the bodega in time to see 2 of them!
El Cerno-that was the first bodega we went to (6). we tried 3 different wines and I liked the Malbec best
La Familia de Tomaso-the second bodega (7). it was super cute. the tour and wine tasting was much better. it was much more informative and personal. we tried 3 Malbecs: a young, an older, and really old. we also got to try the families first attempt at their own variety. it was very sweet and more like a dessert wine.
4. not all steak is created equal.
i ordered what i thought xavier got the other night and when it came out, i swear they had just cut the fat off of everyone elses steak and tossed it on my plate. gross. luckily shara and xavier were generous enough to share.
5. dont put on a fan if there has been smoke in the room. and dont dare move if you are in a Lifehouse hostel bed...you might kill the person underneath you.
What was the difference between the young, older, and really old Malbecs?
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