Madrid - huge impressive expensive airport where they obviously ran out of
money just when they were about to put in comfortable seating and food
places that actually sold food worth eating.
Iberia air - Thank goodness there are still airlines in the world that
don´t distract you with things like legroom (stockholm-madrid) or tv
monitors and movies (madrid-santiago). Spent most of the time laughing at
the selection of pick-up lines in the spanish-english phrasebook (Easy
Tiger!) rather than actually learning useful phrases like ´can you please
drive at under 100kph in the backstreets (see below)?´ Iberia get big
bonus points for cake and chocolate for breakfast!
Santiago - we picked up an extra member of our party during the day here
when one of the stray dogs liked the look of our ´pack`and decided to hang
with us for our trip around the city. Probably smelt better than most of
us did by this time.
Santiago-Cordoba - great views of the Andes. Great smells of our feet for
those few of us carefree enough to kick off our shoes.
Cordoba - a 6 taxi yellow convoy streaking lightning fast through the
backstreets (and all I could say to the driver was `easy tiger!´). Thank
goodness for Alejandro and Celina for being here to organise things in
advance and make our lives much easier. Had a Lomo for dinner. Going to
bed now as it is late and I am tired. Looking forward to a 6am start
tomorrow and climbing a mountain.
Matt
I'm extremely envious of you folks. There's something about latin america that gets in your blood and makes you want to return again and again...
ReplyDelete... and while you're at the lomo, try cordero al palo. Whole lamb barbecued over open fire that is. I don't know about Argentina but at least southern Chile was full of lamb and it was eaten a lot. There's nothing like a peace of lamb's meat so fat that it's dripping by a fire in Patagonia with a good bottle of wine.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a pain! Why not come back to the grey and nice Uppsala?
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