The road to Buenos Aires countinues..
Cordoba and Rosario
12.06.2010 - 17.06.2010
Córdoba
We rocked up to Córdoba early morning, super impressed with the hostel, Che Salguero, run by a great bunch of guys and top rated despite only being open six months. Today was goinbg to be a good Day, Argentina and Englands opening games in the World Cup and a Saturday night out in a decent city.
The build up to the Argentina game was as impressive as the game itself, streets lined with avid supporters and their horns and blue and white stripes everywhere with Argentina scored their goal.
Managed a couple of hours kip before the England game despite a party en masse having started and constant drumming to celebrate their only goal!
A slightly different end to the England game where Grace said that even a glass of wine didnt help matters!
Our bearings of the city becoming a tad better we went in search of the student Plaza to spend a chilled hour listening to a live band in the chilly sunshine.
Us and a couple of Scottish girls went in hunt of some food and gigantic empanadas and copious wine was had, including our lush wine purchased in a vineyard in Cafayate before we were ferried off to the club by the hostel staff Who took us out despite being off duty!
The music was a great change from panpipes, we finally heard a new song!
Slightly sore heads followed the next Day and an amble wander around the town with the shape of the buildings outlined in Black paving slabs on the pathway which was v cool.
Next Day saw us wandering off to a nearby German colony so off we all trooped on the bus to V.G Belgrano . We had also been recommendd by the ubder helpful hostel staff to go to a nearby village and althoough the road the bus took there resembled parto f the journey in BOLÍVIA it was wroth it, because although it was siesta time when we got there, we got took up to a restaurant with gorgeous views of the valley where the rest had trout and I opted for strudel, fearing the trout would not be as good as the one in Copacabana! Back to the German town after full of delicious chocolate shops, some of which ahd to be purchased! In our ignorance we had not noticed that the quaint German town was in fact a town full of Nazis that had fled to Argentina after the second world war!!
Rosário
Arriving into Rosário late evening we decided to take a wonder to the old ferry terminal, now converted in to restaurants and found a quaint sushi place next to the riverside with na amzing Japanese garden. A bit cold to sit outside though but we were treated to amazing fresh fish inside.
With our bellies full we ventured to the tange place, recommended by the hostel receptionist, the floor was full of dancers and we felt quite bad havinng to say No se Tango when asked to dance but we dont know a single step! The floor cleared and a famous couple from Buenos Aires started dancing and they were so so good, a definite highlight!
A day of miandering around Rosário, the birthplace of Che Guevara. Cultural evening(!) followed, a trip to the cinema to see Sex and the City 2!
Posted by grace88 26.06.2010 14:21 Archived in Argentina
