Bodegas Belasco de Baquedano's Smelling Room

Mendoza has been distastefully called the "Argentine Nappa Valley" by a travel writer for the NY Times.  True wine country in Argentina extends all along the Andes range. All the way from Salta to Patagonia, excellent wines are being produced and sweet, almost blueberry like malbec grapes are grown. 

 Bodegas Belasco de Baquedano, Lujan del Cuyo

 So to say that Mendoza is the Argentine Nappa Valley is a total understatement, perhaps it resembles the Cali wine country back 30 years, but the majestic Andes moutain range provides a micro climate so diverse that gives this perfect grape so many different hints and smells.  This bodega is located at the base of the highest peak in the Americas.

Now, thanks to bodegas Belasco de Baquedano, visitors have the opportunity to experience every single smell Argentina's Malbec wines have to offer.

World Malbec Day

This last April 17, Wines of Argentina celebrated World Malbec Day.  Wine gurus, vineyard owners and celebrities met up at Tupungato Winelands, an exclusive golf and polo club in Mendoza.

Parillas: De Un Rincon de la Boca, Mendoza

After a little over a year in Mendoza, Frankie and I decided that the best place to get a meal here was at this little parilla on Las Heras and Mitre. They have a simple menu with all the traditional Argentine "minutas" you would expect from any lunch bar in the country.

Aconcagua and Puente del Inca (The Oz Cronicals Part 2)

After a calorie packed 18 egg and bacon breakfast. We decided to hit the road again. This time the destination was the mountain.  

We loaded a couple of empty damajuanas to drop off for refilling (as Frankie seems to go through a whole one every other day) extra sweaters and hit the road. Today's destination was Puente del Inca and the Aconcagua National Park. 

Franki and me freezing at the park.

Potrerillos Reservoir (the Oz Cronicals part 1)

Our dear friend from Buenos Aires, Dani and his sister Katie and fiance, Jamie decided that they were going to visit us a couple of weeks ago. We were delighted that they were coming because Frankie and I really like to entertain and have guests.

Lago Potrerillos (source: Wikipedia)

Networking the blogs

So I'm trying to network this blog. Why? Because I want people to stop  and read my blog. Why else? Blogging and not having any comments to blog back at is sort of like takling to yourself. Sort of.

Today was a very productive day

So far I've accomplished  to do the following:

1. Set up badges to link all my blogs together (this one, my food blog, my blog in Spanish and my Origami blog) This one took the longest, Photoshop + PComputer = slow computer
2. Signed up for networks like Networkblog for facebook and Bloglovin' and the Blog Farm
3. Pimpled out my Origami website and made a badge for it too. (look at the right column, it's the prettiest one (click here to see my new header!)
4. I made Under the Skin chicken for lunch.

My Origami Blog

I've never really wanted to promote my origami because I didn't know how.  When I lived in Buens Aires my social life was much more active and people were asking me to quote prices on each piece. I had no idea how so I never did, until now. I fixed the blog! (see big origami flower badge to the right!).

It has a lot of pictures and links t videos to make the models yourself.

My Food Blog

Frankie and I stared eating paleo a month or so ago. We love it! Here in Argentina great grass fed beef it easy to get and inexpensive. Vegetables are practically free. There is really good information out there about the diet and it's many health benefits and how grains are really really bad for you.

Who needs bread for pizza?

My Blog in Castellano

Porque siempre se plaguean los perros de que solo escribo en Ingles. Nadie entiende de  lo amigos y familiares que tengo en Paraguay o Argentina, o sencillamente aquellos que no hablan Inlges. Por ahora lo acabe de comenzar. Todavia no se que direccion le voy a dar al blog pero sabia que necesitaba  uno en Castellano.

Besos!

Iguazu Falls, Brazil: Express Cataratas

Frankie had never seen the Cataratas. I though that it was ridiculous that he had been coming down to South America and had never stopped by the amazing Iguazu Falls.  Touristically, the Cataratas (That's what we call it in Paraguay from the Brazilian "Cataratas do Iguazu") can be seen from 2 perspectives: The Brasilian side in Foz de Iguazu and the Argentine one in Misiones, Argentina. Both Argentina and Brasil have super tourist complexes built to show their side off. Each one consists of a series of paths that take you around the park.

Garganta del Diablo, Brasil

One of the spectacular sights is the ‘Devil’s Throat’, the ‘U’ shaped falls, where water from a horse shoe shaped platform falls in to a deep semi circular gorge, the massive fall of water from a height of a 24 storied building.