NH Urbano Cordoba

... some refuge in cheap wine and the fact the next hostel (which I called this morning from the bus station) is owned by a lovely English man who has a pool and a love of wine.... what I haven't told Rob is there is no room for us until Friday evening and we have to sleep in a hammock tomorrow! there is a safe place for our luggage, assuming it hasn't been stolen already from the bus station : )

... lunch. Very romantic. We also became very cultured in Cordoba visiting the art musuem and natural history musuem. <br><br>We visited the musuem of Ermesto Che Guevara in Alta Gracia. This was about an hours bus ride from Cordoba. This was again another experience of are we on the right bus. Everytime we get on a bus we sit down and say right lets hope it is the right one. If not it does not matter it will be going somewhere we have never been ...

... and a replica of the Lourdes Virgin. Most of the places we visited did not allow group tours at the moment because of swine flu so we were unable to walk around with the whole group. However because we were the only English people on the tour, the tour guide stayed with us most of the time to explain the history behind everything. Only at the end of the tour did he decide to tell us ...

... recently working in the States and was now on a student exchange in Buenos Aires. The town he grew up in was called Kitchener-Waterloo and he had attended both Forest Heights and KW Collegiate. Since Martin Edmonds had once run for president there, I asked him if he knew the Edmonds family. He said no. So I dropped the subject till the end of the trip when I asked him if he knew anyone by the name of Gaudun. He assumed I was ...

... I didn't plan my trip around the seasons, I somehow have lucked out... and I almost feel as if I am chasing the sun! Cordoba is a cool city- but it would really blend in with all of the other countless cities here in Argentina if it were not for one awful thing... the countless, endless lined up shoe stores that are selling the most hideous shoes that I am quite ...

Es ist d** 16. Novemb** und wir kommen ganz entspannt p** Bus in Cordoba an. An diesem Abend goennen wir uns **st einmal uns** **stes argentinisches Steak - saftige, knusprige 600g. Leck**! Dann machen wir einen Tagesausflug zu zwei kleinen Orten im Sueden von Cordoba, die vor ei***** Zeit von Deutschen besiedelt wurden. D** **ste davon heisst Valle Gen**al Belgrano ist ein sehr skuriles O**tchen mit Kuckucksuhren und Bi**ga**ten, wo man sogar B**lin-Souvenirtassen **stehen kann ...

... night - it was Sunday and another good excuse for a sleep from the lazy Argentinians :-), I have a bus ticket for tonight to Mendoza 12 hours away leaving at midnightish (they do everything so late here) and im trying to buy some clothes as I have nothing to wear - it is getting rediculous! Nothing bought so far and crazy long siesta is on its way so I will try again in 5 hours or so. I will check out a nice park close to hear and then hopefully time will not drag too ...

... before the 10 hour bus ride from Buenos Aires. It couldn't be that bad, could it? Yes, Cordoba is rundown. Yes, it tends to lack alittle culture, but coming from Buenos Aires, where wouldn't? The main plaza, Plaza San Martin, was decent when the sun came out. I was able to relax-away a couple of hours in the warmth of the sun next to a sleeping grandmother. I wasn't sure if she was sleeping at first, but then she had a coughing attack which woke her up. I gotta ...

... artifacts. Really great little museum in a cute little town. Chavez and Castro came to visit the museum last year (June 22nd, 2006) to pay homage to their amigo. They had pictures of the even and they had their guest book signatures on display. Pretty cool. I was supposed to go today to check out some park with condors but it rained all morning so I scratched that plan. I was also thinking about going to La Cumbre ...

... true backpackers but when it costs 8 squid a night we can afford to splash out in South America. It will be a different story in the rest of the countries we go to no doubt! Cordoba is excellent. It doesn´t have any real tourist attractions but it has a really nice, friendly buzz about it. It is a real studenty town and the nightlife is really good. The girls went out on Wednesday night and I had a night in just to get over my ****** flu ...