Click on the links below to read some of Amanda's most recently published Travel and Journalism articles. See 'Archive' for further articles.

"In a squalid, run down rented house in Lujan de Cuyo there is a musty smell of stale sweat as 17 grape pickers sleep precariously in four shambolic rooms. Some lie on matresses, others on floor mats and three in hammocks erected in the corners. Squeezed in together..."

Wine Republic, February 2010

Family on bicycles: Interview with family cycling from Alaska to Ushuaia

"Most people like a good bike ride on a sunny afternoon, a couple hours in the countryside, a gentle bit of exercise. But I am quite confident you would be hard stretched to find anyone up for a 22,000 hour (30 month) bike ride, across all of America, facing scorching sun, headwinds strong enough to knock you off your bike and your derrier permanently glued to a saddle. Let alone with a wife and two twin 12-year-olds in tow!"

The Mendoza Sun, December 2010


Winetecture - Architecture of Argentina's wineries

"One Argentine winery made an unusual discovery while working its way underground: the remains of a dinosaur. Schroeder, in Neuqùen, came across the remains of a 12 metre long, 16 ton, 95 million-year-old Titanosaur - the largest of its species ever known. Paleontologists were then called in..."

Wine Republic, 1 October 2010


Pitch Fever

"I am not sure if those Ancient Greeks, Romans or even the medieval European peasants who started kicking around a ball (or pig's bladder so some say) ever thought it would become such a big game. Perhaps they did. But I doubt very much that they envisioned the fireworks, riot squads and toilet paper apparently essential to a football match here..."

The Mendoza Sun, 26 March 2010


Hacienda del Plata: Harvesting grapes in the land of sun and fine wine

"The Vendimia celebrations are over, the weather is cooling down and the leaves are turning brown - for many of us this becomes a time to look to hibernation and relaxing after a busy Summer, but for the vineyards this is the busiest time of the year: harvest. Paintings of..."

The Mendoza Sun, 23 April 2010


A guide to Rio de Janiero

"I didn't expect to hear Frank Sinatra in Rio de Janiero, but there he was. "Unforgettable that's what you are... Unforgettable though near or far..." Frank's soothing voice seeped through the stocky taxi driver's CD player as we jerked our way through heavy traffic...

AllWays Traveller, February 2010

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