Ariston Hotel Rosario

We got up at 11am and drove to the old city of Toledo for a tour of the Cathedral. The cathedral was built in 1226 and took 267 years to complete. It was soooo beautiful. Shae was a trooper again. She hung in her stroller for our walking tour of the cathedral (over an hour). We headed up the mountain side so Mike could get a large format shot with the big dog camera. I hope the pictures turn out!

We left Toledo and headed out on our 3 ...

So we left Seville at a more reasonable time of the morning, but still meant getting up at 7h30am... this early morning certainly have not made this seem like vacation...

we went to Cordoba and really theonly thing to see there is the La Mezquita - beautiful... we will upload pics when we can get to good internet services.... but really once you have seen this site... you are done with ...

... I have some cash left. Also, we did another Arab Bath (“hammam”) at 6pm, right when the heat has melted your spirits ‘cause you forgot to go inside for the past 2 hrs. for a siesta. At 6pm, you could fire grapeshot down any street and hit nothing; it’s that dead. Blame it on our hot star.

Ahhh, the Bath. Susan says everyone in the hammam at Granada was hetero but here ...

... are gradually picking up the language (today is our 6th day) - hoping it will be good enough to hold a conversation by the time I am by myself. The bus from Buenos Aires to Rosario (Andesmar, 4 hours) was chepear than we budgetted for and was first class (although still not quite Amtrak nice), air conditioned, meals provided, disney films on a loop and fully reclining seats. Next bus is booked for this morning for Corboda (Urquiza, 6 hours), hopefully will be more of the same.

... by the orange and lemon trees that look nice even when the weather is as awful as today.

Later on I go for a walk to the Puente Romano, a bridge over the river, and go back to the cosy old town centre to grab some tapas and tinto de verano. As I sit at the table, the waiter is hit by a ripe orange falling from the tree just onto his head. He doesn't ...

... half-block or so, Rosario has a dumpster along the side of the street. Throughout the day, various people go picking through the dumpsters to find stuff in the trash-- yeah, just a bit sad, right? Apparently they bundle together the recovered treasures and set them to the side of the dumpster. Later in the day, they come around and pick up all the picked-through trash.) Just across the road from us, there was a 1980´s-era 4-door ...

... my show, Por Amor a Vos. It seems that yesterday, the two janitors ran into one another at a party and they´re in love, but both married to someone else, and their spouses catch them talking at the party. And then Jasmín, as far as I can tell, is pregnant. But we don´t know. And will León ever win her over? Or will she continue to think they´re brother and sister? THESE BLANKETY BLANK SPANISH TV SHOWS!!! I´m so addicted. That´s all. Write more tomorrow.

... but I was not too sure on the etiquette of that and how to go about and as him! So I just said goodbye and burned him to memory! Then I headed to the bus station to try and get nearer to Argentina. The bus was to another non-descript town in Uruguay from where I was to catch a bus to Argentina via an open border, hopefully!! The bus ride though Uruguay was cool, the country was very flat and very green, the whole country has a very backward rural feel to it and was all so ...

... stayed true to his word & we left promptly at 8:05 am. (The kid that we left had to take a train to Cordoba & actually made it there before we did - that's kind of ironic if you ask me) Cordoba is really beautiful & it actually reminds me of Portugal in a way. Very narrow, Gothic streets, with beautiful white plastered apartments & extravagant courtyard gardens. Another town as picturesque as a postcard image. So we were dropped off on the outskirts of town & walked a little ways to ...