Blogs from Córdoba, Argentina, South America - page 35

The bus journey to Cordoba was a nightmare. I had, inevitably, left the hostel in floods of tears: the taxi driver had to give me his tissues. When i got to the station and the bus got later and later, i proceeded to chew off my hand in panic (had the bus been and gone without me noticing?!?) I eventually had the sense to check my ticket, and realised i was 2 hours early, not the bus 2 hours late. I got on, only to have a drunk man sit behind me, saying i was beautiful, and stroking my hair and asking me questions, asking me my name, and breathing all over me with his boozy breath. I pushed his hand away, but didnt want to piss him off incase he got aggressive, so tried to ... read more

Holla, Well after a while in South America I decided to move my pictures and some writtings in the future to the Blog. That way we can keep up in touch and you´ll be able to read and see pictures at the same time. And for me it will be good to do it once in a while... and you can commet on anything. Right now I´m in Cordoba ( Argentina ), doing a great time here before I´m going to Buenos Aires, there Içll spend my time till I´ll go South to Patagonia. I already been in Peru and Bolivia... now I´m starting Argentina and after that I´ll be in Brazil. Hope you´ll enjoy seeing pictures and reading.... With Love and Care, Tomer. ... read more

Learning Spanish is ‘murder’, there’s no other word for it! We’re here in Cordoba to attend a 4 week language school. The school is great, our teacher, Blanca, is great, the students are great but the learning is ‘muy dificile’! The whole experience brings back long-forgotten memories of school: homework (and the pressure of getting it right), repeating conjugations of verbs (o, as, es, a, amos, an), little games in class (eg using flashcards), silly simple sentences (‘the dog is in the house’), publicly being put on the spot, the mind going blank and then internal panic! On the 24th April we arrived in Cordoba, Argentina’s second largest city, about 500 miles north west of Buenos Aires. We flew with Aerolineas and for some odd reason managed to find ourselves in first class along with one ... read more

We decided to go to Córdoba because you could fly direct from there to Iguazú - and it was also in that general direction. Other reasons were: * We didn´t want to go back via Buenos Aires - seemed a bit silly for some reason * The bus journey was about 23 hours from Mendoza to Córdoba * The flight was only 300pesos, and if we went to Córdoba we would see an extra place too * Córdoba had a fierce reputation for being a better party city than BA and we didn´t get to party properly in BA So, the plan was laid after a bit of research and we arrived by bus to Córdoba early in the morning, and took a taxi to our pre-booked hostel. Unfortunately there had been some jiggery-pokery with the ... read more