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Journey to Patagonia: An Adventure Holiday Through Argentina

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Wine Tasting in Mendoza It started, as so many of my travel plans do, with a photograph of some sort of far away natural wonder. This time it was the enormous, bright blue Perito Moreno glacier which caught my beady eye   and  before I knew it I had a whole adventure planned with my husband, my mum and one of my best friends. Buenos Aires After a 13 hour flight from London we arrived in the morning to a sunny and bustling Buenos Aires . (A lucky turn of events meant that we were bumped from our Iberia flight with a stopover in Madrid, to a British Airways flight going straight there!) Street-art on the Subte trains in Buenos Aires After this good omen, another one followed it. We ordered a taxi from the kiosk at the airport (knowing not to just pick one up off the street in BA), and after managing to only just fit our suitcases in the car, our driver Christiano set off. He was brilliant. Waving his arms hither and thither, talking on the phone, and still ...