King David Cordoba

... into the center of town to check out a hostel in the student area of town. As I waited outside for Sylvain to check out the hostel, I was handed a beer by a bar owner, Sebastian. He said, "anyone who has ridden all the way from New York City deserves at least a beer!" When Sylvain came back out, we all had a beer together but we had to go back to the BMW dealer because the brake warning light had come back on the bike on the way ...

... in January. This is lucky for me with my lacking communication skills in Spanish. I was welcomed with dinner and many questions about Finland and Sweden, more than I could answer actually, haha. Like I would know anything about the sport heros of cars for example... :) Anyways, then I settled in the girls room. The whole house was planned 25 years ago by a quite famous architect, and it is quite like a 3D labyrinth on three floors! The prevaling style here seems to be ...

... in sync we were with e*ch other. It w*s BRILLIANTLY tr*ined *nd my one h*nded 'Argentini*n' grip of the reigns *llowed complete control of the be*st with just the slightest nu*nce of movement. I c*n see why horse people love their *nim*ls now, they're *wesome! So, on to Cordob* *nd * potenti*l second skydive. I pl*n to be in Bolivi* (where it's che*p!) by the end of the week. If the people *nd pl*ces *re *nything like *s good *s wh*t I've experienced so f*r in S ...

... a place called tango backpackers which was very nice, although our dormitory did seem to be a bit of a corridor for other people to get to the bathroom. remember waking up on the top bunk once to find 2 people (one of which was slightly weird older spanish lady) having full blown conversation about half a foot from my head. being british, and not wanting to offend, instead of telling them ...

Despite being the second city, Cordoba doesn't have a lot going on and despite some nice colonial buildings has street after street of shops resembling 1970's Watford. Not good. Due to a slightly unforseseen medical situation we ended up staying longer than the place justified. The Spanish took a battering again. It's hard enough with a menu to point at ...

... we both went for the set menu (Flis 2 courses and Henry 3 courses) and what we both had was foul. The food was lacking in everything from flavour to texture, presentation and freshness. It hadn´t been expensive by any stretch of the imagination but the food really was a let down. Then it was back to the internet café to finish off our updates on the blog before we picked up our bags from the hostel and made our way to the bus station for our overnight journey up to Salta.

... in town but now we were sat next to the main road and it was loud and noisy and the pollution might harm his precious vocal chords that he needs to maintain in top condition in order to continue complaining about everything. We went inside, where it was cool and air conditioned but of course as soon as we sat down he started again because it was a tourist bar and the prices were higher than elsewhere. At this point I had to excuse myself for a few minutes to go and ...

Being that I haven't had a good weekend out due to past failed attempts (see previous entries) and being in a University town (I think its the biggest university town in Argentina), and being that it was Friday night, I was wound up to hit it. And boy did I. Predrinking in the hostel so that by 2am (the going out time in Argentina) we were primed to hit the streets. The hostelers were going to a club, but I wasn't ...

... de distintas ciudades de la provincia para estudiar, seria como una Barrio de Universitarios. Seguimos caminando llendo al centro de la ciudad, y llegamos, camino hacia alli, note q la ciudad de cba como la de bs as, esta en picio de construcciones, y en si comentario mio, la de cba esta bastante linda, o quizas la veo con otros ojos q realmente me enamoro esa ciudad, es menos caotica, un poco mas ...

... AUD$120 I could jump out of a plane. I booked it for "Monday or Tuesday" and was told to wait for a phone call at 12 noon on Monday to confirm when I would jump. I waited until 2pm before ringing the place and was told that they would ring me back at 5pm. I got the call to say that they were waiting for me and to jump in a taxi ASAP. So after 5 months of thinking about it I still felt disorganised in my head. I used the taxi time to the aerodrome to relax and ...