St Patricks day
16th March
Walked more about the town and went to a nice park.
The central part of any day here is eating.
The food is immeasurably better than Peru.
Steak every day twice a day is a real possibility.
They have loads of different cuts of beef here,
a tasty t-bone will set you back around 5 pesos.
1 euro = 3.74527 Argentina Pesos.
We also had a "parilla", mixed grill where amoung other things you get,
heart, blood pudding, sausage and intestines, mmmm.
There is a strong italian influance here,
the majority of people are of Spanish of Italian decent,
(they killed off most of the indiginous peoples).
This means that you can also get great ice-cream (at time better than in Italy) and Italian style food like pizza pasta and gnocci (not as good at in Italy).
5 pesos will get you soup, a huge plate and all the dilute orange you can drink.
This was in a 2 man run restaurant catering mainly to men eating on their own with all the tables facing forward to the big tv at the front.
There are also "pay by weight" restaurants where you pick from a buffey before your food is weighed and you are charged only for what you take.
In the evening we found a bar that was celebrating Paddies day early with green beer, groovey green outfits and shamerock face paints.
17th March
We went for the day to Alta Gracia.
There was another Jesuit church dating from 1640s and we also went to see the house where Che Guevarra grew up.
I seem to be following him around, he was born in Rosario, grew up here then studied in Cordoba and then Buenos Aires and then died near where I was in Bolivia, I just have to go to Cuba now.
We met up with a friend of Stuarts that he met in Bolivia called Laura. She brought us to a nice restaurant and showed us some of the Cordoba night life, for which you have to stay out till 6am, we ended up in a faculty party which was good fun.
Walked more about the town and went to a nice park.
The central part of any day here is eating.
The food is immeasurably better than Peru.
Steak every day twice a day is a real possibility.
They have loads of different cuts of beef here,
a tasty t-bone will set you back around 5 pesos.
1 euro = 3.74527 Argentina Pesos.
We also had a "parilla", mixed grill where amoung other things you get,
heart, blood pudding, sausage and intestines, mmmm.
There is a strong italian influance here,
the majority of people are of Spanish of Italian decent,
(they killed off most of the indiginous peoples).
This means that you can also get great ice-cream (at time better than in Italy) and Italian style food like pizza pasta and gnocci (not as good at in Italy).
5 pesos will get you soup, a huge plate and all the dilute orange you can drink.
This was in a 2 man run restaurant catering mainly to men eating on their own with all the tables facing forward to the big tv at the front.
There are also "pay by weight" restaurants where you pick from a buffey before your food is weighed and you are charged only for what you take.
In the evening we found a bar that was celebrating Paddies day early with green beer, groovey green outfits and shamerock face paints.
17th March
We went for the day to Alta Gracia.
There was another Jesuit church dating from 1640s and we also went to see the house where Che Guevarra grew up.
I seem to be following him around, he was born in Rosario, grew up here then studied in Cordoba and then Buenos Aires and then died near where I was in Bolivia, I just have to go to Cuba now.
We met up with a friend of Stuarts that he met in Bolivia called Laura. She brought us to a nice restaurant and showed us some of the Cordoba night life, for which you have to stay out till 6am, we ended up in a faculty party which was good fun.
posted by conor at 9:34 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home