Somehow we ended up (upon their insistence) in the coach cockpit with the drivers sipping Yerba Mate (pronounced "mattay") from a hollowed gourd stuffed with dried leaves through a bambilla, a perforated metal straw. It´s strong and bitter and is the local equivalent of the
Arabic hubbly-bubbly in that it´s passed around. The driver - deadringer for Oliver Hardy - was screaching along at breakneck speed overtaking lorries while drinking his tea and having a ciggie. The guide book says if you´re invited to drink mate, you should always accept - it´s a special Argentinian custom. Well, we wanted to do the right thing!
Somehow we ended up (upon their insistence) in the coach cockpit with the drivers sipping Yerba Mate (pronounced "mattay") from a hollowed gourd stuffed with dried leaves through a bambilla, a perforated metal straw. It´s strong and bitter and is the local equivalent of the 
Arabic hubbly-bubbly in that it´s passed around. The driver - deadringer for Oliver Hardy - was screaching along at breakneck speed overtaking lorries while drinking his tea and having a ciggie. The guide book says if you´re invited to drink mate, you should always accept - it´s a special Argentinian custom. Well, we wanted to do the right thing!
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