Amerian Park Cordoba

We arrived this morning knowing we did not want to spend long in another city and knowing we wanted to head to Mendoza as soon as we could. Rob decided we would leave our baggage at the bus terminal and get the bus this evening so I write this now having spent yesterday wondering around Rosario, the night on the bus and now another day walking around a city. We smell and are tired but have ...

... and handicraft fair in an extremely nice and bohemian part of town.. with cosy alleyways with small stores, and lots of stands on the streets. I really enjoyed it, it was the perfect thing to do to walk around there in the crowd while the sun was setting... after this we went to a birthday party of a girl in Caro's class, and then out clubbing! Got home "early" though (around 5 am)... :) I think I have adjusted to the argentinian lifestyle a bit ...

... chips! I digress, I decided to try *nd p*ss on * little le*rned culture of Kiwi p*rty spirit *nd introduced the guys to the concept of 'skulling' beers (downing them - nothing revolution*ry in the concept but it seemed *ppropri*te *t the time)...the guys didn't seem to be too t*ken with the ide* though *nd conveyed to me th*t the concept w*s common with Whisky in Chile, not with beer. Now I'm not sure how much they'd h*d before h*nd but when I convinced them ...

... een zeer succesvolle dag. Alle vier de palen staan stevig ingemetseld en als we over drie dagen terugkomen, kunnen we denk ik echt wel het hek afmaken. Morgen gaan we de poortdeur maken in Carlos zijn weekendhuis, de dag erna is voor ons allebei nog een raadsel, want dan zijn we nog steeds in het weekendhuis, maar op de 7e dag hopen we dan het hek af te maken, rozenstuiken en/of klimops te kopen en te planten en misschien zelfs nieuw zand te scoren. De aanhouder wint ook in Argentinie!

... collected us and took us Southwest.We had a great day sightseeing. Sat by a river for a while where Virginia gave us Mate. Mate is a form of tea (basically, crushed leaves). It was what the natives drank before the Spaniards arrived (who tried to bring it to Europe, but it never caught on) and it is more popular in Argentina and Uruguay than coffee or regular tea. It´s not on cafe menus, so you have to know a ...

Cordoba from Cafayate we had the last two tickets to Tucuman (bought two days early) whence we hoped to leave for Mendoza. the drive to Tucuman is a nice one, winding up the parched mountain on the Cafayate side, entering mist at the pass and then dropping into dense greenery on the Tucuman side. Tucuman is supposed to be nice, but on our limited view just seemed like an ordinary busy city to us. There are some ...

... have emailed them to warn them not to go there, but it was quite funny to hear that they had exactly the same experience as us! After that we went to the movies - it is great here, the movies costs just over a pound for an adult and you can even take your bottle of beer into the movie if you want to. What´s even better is that the films we have been to see are always virtually empty, so you get to sit where ever you like.

Back into the customary leather LazyBoy seats in an Argie bus, the vertically challenged one and I headed towards Cordoba in the centre of Argentina, drawn by the guidebooks promises of beautiful colonial architecture, sophisticated boulevards and friendly locals. Well, it was ****. How can guidebooks get things so wrong? Here's the Rich&Sin skinny on Cordoba. - There are a few nice old buildings. A few. Three? Maybe four tops. The rest ...

... I think, and you can tell by the youth of the population. We were hoping for even more incredible views than we had had in Rosario, but for some reason Cordoba was only on the level of Bs As. Ah well. We got set up at another good hostel, with plenty of internationals and a good bar downstairs. It wasn´t quite the party place that the last one had been, but we still had a good time following our regimen of food, drink, and ...

... de Bologne in Paris. The food in ARG is really good, thanks in large part to all the Italian immgrants years ago. Pasta, ice cream, and coffee--all excellent! And cheap! The steaks are humongeous and delicious; I´m stuffed after a half portion. And it´s all cheap. A really amazing meal at an upscale restaurant, complete with a good bottle of local wine, will set you back about US$10-12. Again ...