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I arrived early this morning into Cordoba, at around 6am. It was still dark when I got a taxi to Tango Hostel, so with making as little moise as possible, I crashed on my bed until midday. After, I got up to explore the city.
Having had no food so far, what`s the best thing to do? Yep, go to an all you can eat. It was good food, to set me up for the tour of the city that afternoon.
Cordoba is a university city, and therefore has lots of young people. Walking around, I noticed that it is similar in style to Buenos Aires, and that there are lots of good looking girls too. In the hostel, I got chatting to a guy listening to the Goo Goo Dolls, Travis from Sydney. He`s been here a couple of months. Then I met Adam, a guy from Israel and am about to go for a couple of drinks with a German guy called Patrick. I think we`re all going out as a group from the hostel tonight, and I believe the area I`m staying in, Nueva Cordoba is good for nightlife, so we`ll see.
The hostel people are cooking a big meal tonight, where everyone gathers around and tucks in, so I said I was up for that. I need to get back into the Argentinian way of things, as the meal is around 10pm. We`ll go out afterwards, which will suit me as I got up so late today.
I`ll try to find time tomorrow to update some more. Oh, and I`ve got to find a camera repair shop as my camera is broken at the mo. All being well, I can upload more photos soon!
Update (12th June):
Well, I didn´t go out in the end, as I went for a power nap, and didn´t wake up until about 10am the next morning! I must have needed the sleep. We went out the next night though, to a club called Dorian Grey. There was meant to be some kind of cabaret show starting around 1am. It actually started at 3am, with 2 women and 4 transvestites, 2 blatent, 2 I could tell were blokes, pre or post-op was more difficult to tell. It was a rubbish show really but we were there with some locals people in the hostel knew, so it was cool to get to know them. We then got into the VIP area, I think because we were on the guest list. It was a bit quieter there, and you could get served drinks quicker. Being quieter meant I could practice my Spanish a bit more with the locals, which was good.
In the meantime, I´ve been exploring the city, which is really nice. There was the possibility of doing either paragliding or a sky dive one afternoon this week, but I decided to book myself into some Spanish lessons every afternoon instead. I expect I´ll be staying here a while longer, so maybe I´ll do some of the other activities next week.
The people in the hostel have been good to get along with; Teddy left today, Matts from Germany and Larry from Canada left yesterday. There´s new people coming to the hostel regularly and at the moment, there´s Greg from Auz, Kieran from Ireland, Simon from Scotland, then there´s four French people, who Patrick and I stayed up drinking wine with til late last night. It would be nice if there were some more girls in the hostel, but that´s the way it goes sometimes I guess.
The people who work in the hostel are cool too. It seems like a cool job to do as it´s a really relaxed atmosphere, where they are just like anyone else staying in the hostel, although they have to clean and cook, of course! Speaking of which, I´ve had food every night so far in the hostel, and it´s always really tasty, and there´s loads to eat! We had various pies last night, a barbecue of loads of steak and chicken the night before, to name just two. Tonight seems a bit more simple, meat and veg, but no doubt it´ll still be good. I´m making myself hungry just talking about it!
Update (20th June):
I thought I should probably update again as its been over a week since the last. I´m still in Cordoba and having a great time. I´ve just been chilling out here, it´s a really nice city with a good vibe. I´ve been moving around so much I just wanted to take some time to myself and not have to keep travelling for a while.
Yesterday, I went to Alta Gracia, a small town about an hour´s drive away, to see Che Guevara´s old house, which is now a museum. After, I went to an old Jesuit house that has was built hundereds of years ago. It was a pleasant little town, nothing spectacular.
In the next few days before I leave to go to Mendoza, there´s a few possibilties of what I can do. I could go trekking in the mountains, go for a horse ride, do some paragliding or a skydive. I´m tempted by all but it´s more likely I´ll do the latter two, weather permitting.
We went out again last night, this time it´s with a new group of people, as almost everyone in the hostel is different from last week. I´ve met lots of interesting characters, most really cool too. I think we´ll be out again tonight, but I might look into the possibility of going to a salsa club. I can hear the dance floor calling me! Some of us will be going to play beer bowling tonight after dinner. The basic rules are that however many pins you don´t knock down, that´s how many fingers of drink you have to drink. If someone gets a strike, everyone else has to down their beer, half a glass for a spare. We played it the other day. I can´t remember too much about that night...
I think some of us might go for a game of footie in the park tomorrow, hangovers permitting. I also feel as though I should do something active, so I might head to the gym this evening before dinner.
I´m not sure what Mendoza holds, but I hear there´s a chance of doing some snowboarding, so might give that a go.
Update:
Well, for the last days in Cordoba, it was much of the same. Going out to bars and clubs, recouperating in the morning, and figuring out what to do with our time in the afternoon. After one particular night out, we decided it might be good for our bodies to accept the offer from Sabrina, one of the staff at the hostel, to go with her to the park to do some yoga. It was good, but it was quite chilly that day so we all got cold feet, literally not metaphorically.
Aside from cleansing our chi energy, a group of us went to a tango show. I thought it was really good, but perhaps a little long. One of the girls in our group really didn`t enjoy it, but since I had never seen a proper tango show before, I found it entertaining. There were male and female singers, an accordian player, a guitarist and some dancers. Seeing it still didn`t make me want to dance tango though, I still think salsa is better. Laura, a good friend of mine from the hostel, disagreed with me. She believes the dance is filled with passion and yearning, a display of erotic emotion which can be shared by the two dancing. For me, salsa`s more fun, but I still haven`t danced it since I`ve come back to Argentina.
It was Monday 25th when Sander, Phil and I said our goodbye`s to everyone at the hostel. It was quite sad because I`d got to know everyone quite well. Travis had been there for ages when I got there, Patrick a few days before me. Then there was Laura who`d been there for a few days, and the staff, who were really friendly. The Tango hostel had made it easy to stay there, and I think I wanted to return to a sort of ´comfort zone` for a bit. But, it was on to Bariloche next to do some snowboarding and spend my birthday there.
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