el tren ya pie…

Thursday today…  high temperatures and low energy have meant it’s been a very lazy week so far… but then that is what recovery time is all about and Mendoza is a terrific place for putting your feet up at a pavement cafe and watching the world go by… except during siesta anyway when the city goes to sleep… as do I :-)

I did however discover something, well two things really, very interesting here..  no wait, three things… oh this could all go a bit Monty Python…  so the first was purely by accident stumbling on Mendoza’s brilliantly derelict old railway station while cycling back from Parque San Martin which is where I discovered the other interesting thing… and I’ll write about the third tomorrow if I remember.

First however the railway station.. it’s not on the map, rather it’s just a big blank space, the reality is somewhat, and deliciously, different…

not leaving any time soon…

The other (second…) interesting thing was the discovery that Mendoza, 1000’s of km from the ocean, has a yacht club… It’s in Parque San Martin next to the artificial lake that at about 50m wide by 500m long must only be useful for rowing/sculling.. judging by the lack of waterborne activity however it seems that really the club serves the same primary purpose as all such clubs around the world… i.e somewhere to drink … ;-) There’s a golf club too……

Mendoza is really known for wine.. tomorrow I’ll head off on my bike and visit one or two of the local bodegas… get my legs going again ready for departure, back up into the mountains, on Saturday… all being well :-)