Hello from sunny Cordoba (it´s Becka). I know we´re updating this quite often but it´s crazy how many new and noteworthy things you do when you´re not at work. One of my favourite noteworthy things we did the night before we left Bs As was go to La Viruta - another milonga-ish dance venue in Palermo. As well as dancing tango, lots of people were having lessons to 50s rock´n´roll and then it turned into a proper jive-fest. An elderly but energetic Argentinian man ended up showing me the ropes on the dancefloor to ´Rock around the Clock´. Luckily I´ve always been partial to a bit of jiving.

One of the not-so-good noteworthy things was the realisation that my 20-odd mosquito bites were in fact from...BED BUGS! Mauro had guessed this several days ago but didn´t tell me cos he rightly guessed that I wouldn´t sleep properly in that bed again. They´re revolting and hopefully that´ll be our last encounter with Latino bed bugs.

Anyway now we´ve just had a couple of days in Cordoba. It´s got a really studenty laid-back feel here and obviously we´ve eaten really well (apart from the ham and anchovy pizza...doesn´t work). Today we went to the nearby town of Alta Gracia near the Sierras. Che Guevara grew up here (cos of his asthma) so we went and saw his house, which is now a museum. It was fab (here´s a picture of me arm in arm with Ernestito outside).

We also saw a huge Jesuit estancia which was muy impressive but not quite as fab cos we´d been walking around in the sunshine all day. The guys at the hostel are having a BBQ on the rooftop tonight so we´re gonna pop up for a beer or two (and no doubt hear some more date-rape/bag snatching horror stories which tend to do the rounds). Back to Buenos Aires again tomorrow (we will go to other places soon, ha ha).