Astoria Cordoba

... if we could just "chop" three inches off the package we could send it through the normal post. OK, it wasn't the Mona Lisa that we'd bought but I reckon if I'd walked into this bloke's front room and sliced three inches from the painting hanging over his fireplace he wouldn't have been too happy!<br><br>We therefore left the post office with our drain-pipe still tucked under my arm - clearly a plan B was required.<br><br><br><br>

... and he called me up to the middle of the circle to demonstrate with him.... so embarrassing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't even know the basic steps properly. Hahaha, it was horrifying, but he was just laughing at my embarrassment saying "bastante bien" (pretty good).. he must have been a sadist, enjoying making people blush! Then I had to dance with some other men, which was much harder, but a lot of fun! I just wish I knew the language better, for example it took me the ...

... like * little sidekick sm*ller dog, * jeep c*me y*pping behind tow*rds the crowd, not *fr*id to mount the p*vement *s it 'PHFFFSSSSTTTT'ed' it's r*ther l*rge p*ylo*d of te*r g*s into the crowds midst. We were l*ughing our he*ds off *t the surre*lness of the situ*tion, right behind us w*s * tr*in st*tion, McDon*lds, v*rious m*rket st*lls, *ll going *bout their business - this w*s CRAZY (THIS w*s South Americ*)! As people c*me stumbling down the street tow*rds ...

... of vomit, and self inflicted wounds from the fantastic night you can`t for the life of you remember...but maybe its time to grow the **** up????? Maybe???? But all to often, like the foster t-shirt wearing goon in Cartegena, there is that Australian that makes you want to hang your head in shame. And I sadly feel our reputation as the lovable larikin is developing into no more than the drunken goon. Yet we poweron thinking we are as loved and ...

Cordoba is a city with a large student population, and it was approiately the town where we had chosen to study Spanish for a second week. We had a couple of schools to chose from, one big with lots of facilties but bigger classes, the other smaller, with no facilties but it would be just the 2 of studying. We opted for the latter, as we thought it would benefit us more to have a greater amount of attention from the teacher. Our teacher was a lady ...

Im Backpackers in Gordoba auf Manuela Amrein gestossen, die eine Stunde nach uns dort eingetroffen ischt. Manuela ist die Schwester meines guten Freundes Raffael Amrein aus Zuchwil. Wir wussen zwar beide, dass wir in Südamerika unterwegs sind, sind dann aber ohne konkret abzumachen ...

... for a beer. After our meeting, we went to the movies and saw a film. The movie theaters here are really cheap and even allow you to buy beer and take it into the theaters. So, we got extremely drunk and watched a movie...just kidding. We had a beer before, then stuffed ourselves with some sweet popcorn during the movie! The next day we went to a little German village about two hours outside of Cordoba called Villa General ...

... trouble. Some girls called out Kieran's name. We had just walked past an outdoor bar where two girls recognized Kieran. He apparently had met them on his first night in Cordoba. They invited us to sit down and drink with them. Two hot girls inviting us to beer. Damn it, I really hate it when plans fail this nicely. They want to take us dancing. Why not. Ciao memory. Kieran and I find ourselves stumbling home around 9am, hammered, walking ...

... to a party with another 4 Israelis we've met in our hostel. Since the parties start here at 2 AM, we went to sleep for 2 hours, woke up, caught a taxi to the club AND the club was closed... so we continued to another club, we got there and except of the fact it was almost empty the music that was playing was Spice Girls.... I think what I'm trying to say is... If you know where are all the students of Cordoba and ...

... just kept coming around bit by bit, like yum-cha, and I couldn`t say no! We had a siesta time although the grass was a bit patchy so when I lay down I came up dirty and with ants crawling over me. Fiesta Espanola The crazy Spanish guys, Justin and Jota, organised a little Fiesta Espanola at the hostel. Basically all it involved was lots of red cask wine mixed with Coke (yes, and you think I'm weird drinking red cordial and Coke - oh how I do miss my drink of ...