May 20, 2025
Currency controls and the impact on the blue dollar
It has now been a month since the government lifted the currency controls which have dominated (many would say restricted) the Argentina economy for m...
Read More
Blog
April 18, 2025
Easter traditions and religious art in Salta & Jujuy
This week, typically international guests of ours (on this occasion, it’s an Argentine woman from Cordoba who is married to a Brit, and they live in S...
Read More
March 21, 2025
The rise and rise of Air bnb (and the problems it brings)
My 19-year-old son Calixto has just bought a flat in Cordoba, where one of the rules of the block is "No Temporary Lets". This seems like a sensible...
Read More
February 7, 2025
El Bordo de las Lanzas: a historic Argentine estancia
For our recent wedding anniversary, Alicia and I treated ourselves to a night at Salta’s most historic country house, once the home of the Güemes fami...
Read More
December 24, 2024
How expensive will it be to visit Argentina in 2025?
I’m sure you’ve all been wondering how our new President is getting on. Trump’s best friend (now there’s a clash of weird egos and hairstyles) has now...
Read More
November 21, 2024
Travelling to NW Argentina just got even easier
This month, a new flight connection from Paraguay arrives directly to the airport of Jujuy, the gateway to the colourful canyon of the Quebrada de Hum...
Read More
October 29, 2024
The South American folk tradition of drinking maté
One of my favourite Argentine customs is the drinking of maté, a green tea which we offer all guests on tailor-made trips with Poncho Tours. People ha...
Read More
September 12, 2024
Off the beaten track in the Inca Sacred Valley of Peru
On our recent trip to Europe we stopped off for a week in Peru, a country which Alicia and I first visited in 1999. Twenty five years ago, we actual...
Read More
August 22, 2024
Don’t cry for the blue dollar (or Argentina) just yet
On my recent trip to Europe, it was difficult to avoid the subject of Argentina’s new President. As a new Labour government was elected in my beloved...
Read More