Ariston Hotel Rosario

I need to post my photos from the Alcazar. And I now need to post photos from the Mezquita in Cordoba. Both were awesome. Beyond words. They require pictures. But, I am too lazy to post them right now. However, I have a 3.5 hour ride to Granada tomorrow. So hopefully I will get a bit more organized during that trip and post when I arrive at the oasis... no, the hostel is actually called Oasis. :)<br><br>Hasta luego mis amigos!<br>

... a huge stone monument and surrounding plaza dedicated to the creator of the flag. The original flag was apparently first raised on the nearby river bank when the "Argies" were fighting for independence from Spain back in the early 1800's. <br><br>Interestingly enough, adjacent to this place is another large floodlit monument with huge letters stating "Las Malvinas Son Siempre Argentinas" in other words "The Falklands Are Always Argentinian". Is that so?! <br><br>It's funny really, as ...

... amazing. I would love to describe everything I saw but am having a hard time finding the right words...it is just one of those things you need to see for yourself to fully apprecaite. Despite how beautiful these buildings are it saddens me that so many of these buildings were altered from their original state. It would have been absolutely ...

Ah... One of the cities in Spain by far is Cordoba. If you are into photography, night shots of the old city of Cordoba is a must to do. The city is surrounded by a fortress. We got a room in a hotel just outside of the old city. 15 minutes walk will take you to the ...

... really sweet, smaller than most, eccentric decor (boar´s heads and PVC covered lounge chairs), all in all pretty chilled. Friday I wandered around town with an Australian girl, Shannon. Her travelling buddy, Marnie, has been struck down with the dreaded jardia and couldn´t make it out the hostel. We wandered to the Monumento Nacional a la Bandera and took in the views from the top. Then ...

... Students´ Day.¨ People were EVERYWHERE. They just set up camp on the lawn of the many parks here. I just about bought 2 bags of milk and joined them. But the grass here´s very dry. IT hasn´t rained here in 7 months, and we´re here for their worst drought in 106 years. Imagine how dry everything looks. But you can´t see it, because I´ve been snapping away with my camera but my memory card and card reader in order to upload the pics to my ...

... lovely homeless guy walks me to the market to keep me safe from the dock workers, maybe the people are not as grumpy as I fist thought! However, after one night here I had had enough of the expense, blandness and to be totally honest the fellow backpackers in my hostel who just sit in all the day watching the TV and football! I wanted to get back to Argentina so I caught a bus to the pie capital Fray Bentos where I was to catch a bus over the border to Argentina but the ...

... a nap (a very pretty HI one... one that may redeem HI in my opinion... but we'll leave that for now). I got up at 4.30 and was out of the hostel by 5pm. According to my book there isn't too much to do in Cordoba except the Mezquita, the Moorish mosque dating back several centuries. So I wandered around the streets and the squares. I really like the Spanish style of town design, there are lots of little squares in between the buildings where people can gather and just chill ...

... a while in the temperate water, we moved on to the hot water which is a few degrees cooler than a hot tub. We stayed in there for no more than 5 minutes, and then moved on to the (yikes!) COLD water. It was hard to stay in there for more than a minute it was so cold. Then we went back to the temperate water to start all over again. It was lovely. BUT THAT´S NOT ALL!!! We also got massages with scented oil. That rocked hard core!! Pretty much arab baths ...