Holiday Inn Cordoba, Argentina

... white top with a loose drapy hip-length cardigan over it. (Cardigans longer in the back than at the front seem popular right now.) She has a patterned scarf draped around her neck, sunglasses, and attractively messy long brown hair. She carries a trendy bag and walks purposefully towards her next class.

Cordoba´s main attraction is the Jesuit Block, an area in the heart of the city filled with impressive buildings built by the ...

... by far the best place we have stayed in, a self contained chalet with double bedroom, nice bathroom, kitchen, dining room, cable TV etc and even a swimming pool, all to ourselves. The views were brilliant and the weather was hot so great place to just chill, more or less a holiday from traveling if that makes any sense, probably not :)
The place had a dog as well that had just had a puppy which was another nice touch. We were only gonna stay a couple of days but we ...

... bus station, walking to their Hostel with a typical German pride.

Once we got to our hostel, it was immediately clear that we were not the only Irish to be traveling up through Argentina. All in all, there were 2 groups of 3 Irish guys, a Dublin girl with her sister and Miriam and I, totaling 10 Irish having arrived in the space of 24 hours!
Using our hostel discount card we got a three-bed dorm to ourselves. A room which would fit in perfect in a ...

... Buenos Aires vertrokken. Toen we Carlos vertelden hoe veel geld we opgehaald hebben, zag ik zijn oogjes nattig worden, een vertederend gezicht. Het was echt een gezellig etentje en ik ben ervan overtuigd dat we hem over een paar weken echt wel gaan missen. Hij gaat morgen al een begroting maken voor de weekendjes weg (waarschijnlijk 8 euro per kind per weekend, super he?!) en heeft beloofd de fotos op te sturen als ze geweest zijn. We kunnen nu al niet wachten!

... of the city didn't feel too safe, so I didn't want to go too far. I found a family restaurant around the corner and got a massive pizza and a drink for 17 pesos (NZ$10). I have enough pizza left over for dinner tomorrow night. Back at the hostel I was offered half a twin room for tomorrow night and took it. I'd had a look on the internet and there isn't much else left in Cordoba at the moment. The hostel seems really nice and has lots of info about what to do around here.

... and of course we were up for a big party especially since it was one of the girls. But this is Argentina where nothing starts before midnight! But off we went for an okay night of partying. I was not feeling that well and headed home at the reasonable hour of 2.30 am and the parties were just starting! Sunday morning, I awoke and decided I needed some space from all the girls on the ...

Gestern hatte ich meinen letzten Tag in der Sprachschule und ich habe den Unterricht mit einem furchtbaren Kater beendet. Am Donnerstag haben wir endlich mal die Gelegenheit gehabt ein bisschen tiefer in die argentinische Partykultur einzutauchen. Erst waren wir in einen Hostel (okay, das ist nicht so argentinisch...) wo wir mit Leuten aus aller Welt unvernuenftig viel billgen Wodka getrunken haben. Der Wodka hat 9 Peso (2,25 Euro) pro Liter gekostet! Spaeter, so um 01:30Uhr ...

... around Cordoba itself and have decided that we both rather like it here: enough culture to feel like a 'proper' tourist destination, but plenty of local colour and people just living their lives to make it real too. We´ve taken in the beautifully renovated Jesuit Crypt and some other buildings of note and have just enjoyed a good menu del dia at a modest place near the Jesuit block. Now, a few hours to kill before our night bus leaves. Wikipedia beckons... (T)

... and showed us some of the Cordoba night life, for which you have to stay out till 6am, we ended up in a faculty party which was good fun. Argentinian life 18th March After getting ice-creams from the tastyist place in town which we were shown last night and a rest in the park it was time for our next lesson in Argentinian life. Laura brought us to a family birthday party, which means, you guessed it, more great barbacued meat, mmmm. Lauras family where extremely ...