Zuccardi Winery

It was a beautiful day in Mendoza so we went to lunch at Zuccardi in Mapu. It was a 72 peso ride to the winery. The lunch was very good in a very nice dining room in the Vineyard. Zuccardi make very good and highly rated tempranillo. It also carrries a high price tag. We had a 2004 Q series at $130 peso. It was very good. Big Nose lots of fruit and vanilla Great mid pallett with bright tannins and a long smooth finish.

The lunch was very good but it was the standard Argentina Parrilla that you can get on every corner of Argentina. The did provide their lower label Santa Jullia with the meal but I have found their standard reds to be sub standard. The reserve and the whites are much nicer for the price point. The shocker was the bill $130. peso each. This type of meal is never over $45 peso anywhere in town. So, I have to say it is a tourista ripoff! But, we still had fun.

We moved into a new apartment. It is a very nice building, brand new, very fancy and clean. The best it is very quite. we could not sleep at the old place because of the traffice noise. We got a good deal, at $820 USD. We moved out of our old place and into here. I will send pictures later

On an off note: new place has new doors; got locked in Bathroom, could not get out Marie had to help get door open. The quality of Argentina workmanship is not the best by any means of the word.


Jeff

Working

It was raining today so a good day to get some work done. We meet some nice people and we tortured them with our spanish. we are learning but very very slow. Argentines have their own dialect and they speak fast. The place we are staying is very noisy from the street, it has been hard to sleep. They drive like Italians, Jack rabbit starts and stops, horns, pedistrians have NO right of way. which works very well. There are no errogant pedistrians in Argentina. Everyone know that the vehicle has the right of way.... Most of the vehicles run on CNG or diesel. My spell checker does not work because the browser thinks that I am in Argentina so most words are assumed to be incorrect.

Adios,

Jeff

Mendoza lunch at the Winery

We just had a great lunch at the Winery a great wine shop in Mendoza. One of the best so far. We just meet a couple from Amsterdam they were traveling for 4 months and on there way to Basil. Makes us jealous. We are going to look at a new APT this evening. meeting leandro.vdv@gmail.co

m. We are planing a trip to the Uco Valley.

sun sun sun

I got to work on the deck today. The more I am in Argentina the more it reminds me it Italy. HORNS We went for nice lunch in Villinouva Ave. had Pizza. we found a butcher shop on the same street we got the fixin for Empandas made from leftover. They give you a lot of food for a cheap price.

We have been trying to schedule a wine trip but our guy Marcello has been busy. It is the very off off season but there are still some tourist. A lot of kids heading to Patagonia. Hope the dress warm because it was quite cool in the Summer. We have been practicing our Spanish but know one knows what we are saying. We are still trying anyway. It is cool when you can get something out correctly.

It is almost time for dinner 9:00 PM, which is early here. I lit the stove with a match, us Americano's are so spoiled.

Adios

Jeff

Great wine store in Mendoza

We found a good wine store in Mendoza with good prices and nice worker

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now that is a steak

I just had a 1/2 kilo steak Fillet Mignon for 10 bucks. It was on of the best steaks I have eaten. Great. It was a great day in Mendoza 80 degrees we walked to the central park very nice. We were going to go out on this small island in the middle of the park but as we approached a police car they go out the the care on one had a shotgun and went over to the island. We decided that we did not need to go there. There were about 5 guys drinking on the end of the island and the police went to have a talk with them, With shotguns. They do not mess around down here.

Marie made a lentil soup for lunch with left overs it was very good. Here plan was to keep us un a $20/day budget, I don't think so.

adios

eat at home ran out of pasos

Marie and I had lunch at a Parrilla (pronounced pa-rees-shaa) it a grill this afternoon had leftover in a stew this evening after a trip to the local tienda(store) we have a huge grocery two blocks away.

I love the keys to the doors down here, skeleton keys like the one's we had in the 50's and 60's. It is always strange to be in a foreign country and notice all of the things we take for granted like a dishwasher, dryer... It give me better perspective. It is a bit of a bummer that everyone can tell by looking at us that we are Americans, even when we dress down.

I meet a young guy from England or New Zealand he was off to Salta. I gave him a few tips for the area. We were there last year. I am thinking about a trip to San Juan Argentina. It's not very far away.

We started to watch Little Miss Sunshine on DVD but it was all dubbed in Spanish with no subtitles and my spanish is not that good. Maybe we can watch it near the end of the trip.

I missed out on meeting with my doctor friends in BA because I gave them to short of notice. They tried to set it up but we decided to catch them when we returned in Aug.

Good Night
Jeff

Mendoza and map

Here is a link to our apt in Mendoza.

http://tinyurl.com/qqbxkl

great location in the main part of town. picture to come. We have views of the Andes

Last day in BA

We had a great day in BA yesterday. Went to our favorite local restaurant for Locro a local stew. walked around town to get some exercise sun is out temp is mild. Ate dinner about 9:00 which is very early for Friday night. went to favorite place for Italian food, Mancini's. We had a Santa Julio Reserva Malbec 07, It was very good. I was talking to the wine guy at Disco super mercado and he recommeded it to me. A good cheap wine, second label for Zucarti. Nothing special happen because we are very familia with BA . My browser thinks I am spanish so it is all in spanish including the spell checker which say everything is mispelled. So if you see mispelling, well it happens. On to Mendoza today at 3:00 argentina time.

buenos aires newspaper show their Pres. Christina K. with Chavez and states they are becoming closer. HUH

Internet is working

Found a unlocked connection. Back to the real world. We ate at one of favorite hole in the wall places in BA for lunch and dinner yesterday. Sun is out an a beautiful fall day. Catching up on work and trying to coordinate dinner with Doctors in BA on short notice. Looks like it may happen.

adios

argentina we are here

we just landed in BA Continental lost Maries bag. hope to get it tomorrow. we have insurance from Amex if not. It is a bonito day in BA. it is fall it is time for lunch so I will catch up later.
staying in Park Chateau hotel. they charge 15US for wireless connection. not good. using free computer.

adios

Austin sailboat shop

My Brother-in-law owns the Sailboat Shop in Austin. They sell Hobies and Catalina sailboats. Marie and I helped him at the shop today.

austin, TX

We have been in TX for the last few days. A bit scary in Bush country. Hot, real hot, but it feels good. Heading to downtown today to check it out

ok rain keeps coming down

We are still in OKC watching it rain.