Grand Astoria Hotel Cordoba
Av Colon 164 Cordoba, Province of Cordoba, Central Argentina, 5000, Argentina
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Cordoba
... vrij is. Al met al een lange dag maar wel redelijk op schema.
06-11-2011: ik slaap redelijk tot goed ondanks het feestgeruis in het hostel. De meegenomen oordoppen blijken nu al zijn nut te hebben bewezen. Na een ontbijtje vertrek ik lopend richting het oude centrum van Cordoba om wat kerken en kathedralen te bekijken. Cordoba is overigens qua grootte de tweede stad van Argentinie met zon 1,5 miljoen inwoners. In het ...
Trotting Around Cordoba
... yes who happened to be staying in the same hostel as us, none other than Dom!) for our day trip horse riding. It was hilarious!! We went out of the city to a farm run by our guide Marcello and his family. Marcello was the best guide we’ve had so far on the trip, he was full of tales from his time working the Polo scene in St Albans of all places and helped us all with the horses and in my opinion made the day a great experience! ...
Hipster Couchsurfing Friends
I arrived in Cordoba on an unusually windy, cold, rainy night. To make matters worse I had been given a ride by a truck driver who was a friend of a couchsurfer, so he couldn't drop me off at the bus station or really anywhere far from the highway cause he wasn't allowed to drive on the small city streets. Even worse than that, you can only ride the buses in Cordoba if you have 'cospeles' or bus tokens. So, my unbelievably nice couchsurfer had to come pick ...
Been there, done that, didn't buy the Che t-shirt
Córdoba is a University town, thronging with students gabbing about deadlines and practicing English with you, whether you like it or not. I had travelled from Mendoza with four Irish medics, so it was bound to be good craic. If not good craic, it would be craic in some form or other. If I`ve learned anything over the past few months, it’s that Irish people will, throughout the day, be having craic. What’s more, they will almost always rate the craic highly. For ...
'The Randoms and the Opera'; or, BA - Paris II
... but rather abrupt German tones) 'What are you doing here?', before they told me that it was a great honour and a pleasure to meet me.
By the way - as a aside: I have discovered something incredible in Buenos Aires. I get street cred, purely on the basis of my nationality. It's cool to be British. Even amongst the Germans. Seriously, these Venezuelans spent the whole night telling me how they were influenced by British music. And a German guy actaully spent ages ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Astoria


