Hotel Sorrento La Falda

After a rather uneventful if long journey through Paris, London and Buenos Aires, I finally made it to Córdoba. The 4h jet lag hasn't been too much of a problem.
Someone from AFOS (the NGO) picked me up at the airport last Saturday afternoon and we went to the AFOS house to meet the rest of the team.
Afterwards we went to the flat where I´m staying. It´s right in the centre of ...

... heights while we were there - although we did end up having the fan in our room on all night.

Not much happened while we were there although as stop-offs go this was a good-un. We did witness a march which included lots of loud bangs resembling gun fire, and a tire on fire. Being foreigners we had no idea what was going on - for all we knew they could have been protesting against tourists with cameras (see photo).

Anyway...Salta next!

... jeder Fieberverdacht.
Beim Essen sind wir ziemlich ratlos weil wir uns alles selber kochen muessen aber damit kommen wir shcon halbwegs klar. Gestern gab es Reis mit Erbsen, Mais, Schinken und Kaese... naja.
Die Geschichten klingen jetzt ziemlich derb aber keine Angst es geht uns in Wirklichkeit eh recht gut und lachen hauptsaechlich ueber die ganzen Sachen. Obwohl das Dach schon echt nervig ist...
Cya

... if we want to do it...which we reply ´yes´ 10 minutes later I´ve watched H take off and I´m standing on the edge of a cliff strapped to Fechu Ferrari, who´s a paragliding instructor. We launch ourselves off the cliff and then I just sit back and relax and enjoy the view which is spectacular. We get really high on a huge thermal and the launch site is way way below. end up landing by the river further into the valley...great flight and felt reallt safe. Head back to BA that evening...

... everything was closed; except an artist market where I spent a good deal of time. I continue to try to learn Spanish - that evening, I was showing my purchases off to a local woman. "How do you say 'Artist' in Spanish" I asked her. "I don't understand that word." She said ...

... too. There was a letter Che wrote to Fidel telling him he was renouncing his Cuban citizenship before he left for the Congo to fight with rebels there. The tone of the letter suggested that he was renouncing his citizenship because he was going to the Congo on his own, not representing Cuba and did not want Cuba to take responsibility for his actions. It was fascinating to walk around where Che grew up...and he played rugby ...

Well i had to bring something back for my Family of course to let them see what i experienced. So i passed by a a mall. the Cordoba Shopping Center. It was Beautiful. I bought Argentinian Flags and Chocolate. Oh yes My family would like to try that. I also bought shirts and postcards. In Total it ...

... policies are identical and irrelevant. Who cares, right? Right... And then. Cinema. I have trecked around various cinemas in this town, but not one of them seems to be showing Resident Evil 3. This is a disgrace - the climax to the most important cinematic trilogy since Kieslowski's "Three Colours...", and it's being ignored. If this was some populist trash like Lord Of The Rings, would it be treated this way? You can bet it wouldn't be. It's a disgrace, I tell you. A disgrace.

... fast as his little drunk legs could take him, while the cabbie and one of his nearby cabbie friends were continuously boxing him off. By the time i found him he had been caught and was being held up by some massive cabby whilst the other was taking a few swings and saying he was going to take linz to the policia (which may have just got us deported). I weigh up my options: 1 - go home and catch up on some much needed sleep and i'll see linz in australia when i get back ...

Just a quick stopover in Cordoba as Brandon wants to get to Buenos Aires and I'm anxious to finally get there. I plan on coming back through the main cities in Argentina anyway. Can't say too much about Cordoba other than I liked Salta more. The truth is we didn't do very much here and it's easy to get a skewed view of a place where ...