First off . . .a Happy and Healthy New Year to all our family and friends.
It is now 2009 and the Wandering Evron’s are getting itchy and are ready to embark on their next adventure.
After spending time in big cities in South America this past October (Miraflores, Buenos Aires & Montevideo), we now know that […]
PARTY TO HELP THE ANIMALS
Poco Cielo Resort is hosting a fund raiser to benefit
homeless, abused and abandoned animals
in the care of Lighthouse Animal Rescue of Atenas.
Sunday, December 7th starting at 7:00 PM
3,000 colones admission per person
includes 1 free drink! Chips, pretzels and other light snacks…
cash bar with beer and wine!
SILENT AUCTION, DANCING,
ENTERTAINMENT, FUN!!!
All donations are […]
(These events took place on October 22)
Day Two of the Evron Wine Tour. No driver today. Instead we were on two wheels.
After the debacle of renting bikes in Mendoza centro, I was a bit hesitant about repeating the performance, but while Mike was persistent and with wine as a prize, I relented. Thankfully Alberto and […]
(We finally arrived home last Friday, the 31st and realized we have a great deal more stories to share. We will be posting them as we write them but unfortunately they will be in the order that we think of them. These events took place on October 21.)
The main purpose for picking Mendoza as an […]
Note: The events described here took place on October 15th. It’s just taken me this long to write it all up. So much for the blog format…
By our second day in Uruguay, we were seriously beginning to regret the brevity of our stay here. The food and the wine had been […]
It was finally time to check out of our hotel.
While dinner at 1884 brought some redemption to our time in Mendoza, we were very happy to be leaving Mendoza centro and going to our next destination, Casa Glebinias - Hotel Rural, located in Chacras de Coria, in the heart of Malbec wine country. While still […]
Our internet connection of late has been rather spotty so our posts are a bit delayed. But here is another feeding frenzy worth hearing about.
The one thing to do that seemed to be a universal suggestion from everyone I spoke to, every Mendoza site I perused and book I read, was a visit to THE […]
We first stopped for a lite bite at the breakfast buffet at the hotel, after all, we needed sustanence for our day of bike riding around Mendoza, and then arrived at the bike rental shop a little late (guess we still are on Tico time). We were definitely not the only ones thinking a bike […]
Read more…We made our way back into town after we finally had a chance to change our clothes, brush our teeth and lay down (for all of 10 minutes). Once again we passed the car dealerships, furniture shops and the few kiosks that were open, and then we found our way to the pedestrian street, Callie […]
Read more…When planning this trip to South America, we chose our destinations with basically two things in mind, neither of which should be a surprise to anyone who has been following our adventures. Steak and wine. We knew we would be able to get steak in most of the towns and countries we would be visiting […]
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