Goodbye Cordoba, I miss you already

On Friday night, Billy and I went out to one of the biggest night clubs in Cordoba. Because we were lads, we had to wait for a while before we got in, but it was worth the wait. The bouncer was going out of his way to let the girls in, while we just stood around waiting. We actually got into the VIP section which was pretty cool.

For anyone who likes being surrounded by beautiful people, especially girls, then this is the night club for you: But Mitre. Its actually incredible the amount of girls in the night club, but also how beautiful they are. Either all girls in Cordoba are extremely good looking, or only good looking girls are allowed in the club. Either way, for the few guys allowed in, its great. I could go on describing how quite mind blowing the whole night was, but I'd just be repeating myself. On the theme of repeating myself, we went back to the same night club on Saturday night and stood in the same spot (for a while anyway) in the VIP section. I think being non-Argentine helped us getting in there, and also getting in there free.

Even though the nightlife in Cordoba is the best in the world that I've seen so far, we decided to leave today for Mendoza. We got home last night at about 3/4am and had to get up at about 8am for our flight at 10:50am. The under 21 French rugby team was on our flight and only then realised that the under 21 world cup is starting on Thursday here. Hopefully though we'll be in Buenos Aires on Wednesday for the Argentina - Brazil football match. We're trying to get a ticket but not being in Buenos Aires is making things a bit difficult.

Today, we arrived got to our hostel at about 12:30pm. Its really central, so once we got sorted, we went for a bit of lunch. The first place we sat down in seemed really nice, but then we noticed a dodgy smell and the bread roll on the floor. So we got up and made our excuses in poor Spanish. The 2nd place we went to was much better. There are loads of restaurants here and they're all really nice, but I think we got unlucky with this one. The place we just went to for dinner was amazing, and I had my best "non-steak" meal yet!

After lunch, we rented a bike for a few hours and cycled up to the main park in the city. We noticed the city was really quiet and we realised why when we saw thousands of people wandering around in the park. It wasnt really warm, but it was sunny and pleasant. A nice day for a cycle around.

Having about 4 hours sleep on Friday night and about 5 last night, combined with the cycle today was enough to knock me out for a few hours this evening. After dinner we went to a casino for a bit, but it was nothing special. The casino is attached to Park Hyatt Mendoza which is the HQ of the rugby world cup where all the refs are staying. A very nice porter helped us find the Irish team hotel. We went there, but they were in bed. The breakfast room was all decked out with mini Irish flags, so we'll go back there in the morning and say hello. Billy knows the coach and a player, so we have a decent excuse to go there.

Tomorrow, I'm hopefully going to do paragliding, but its dependent on the weather. In the afternoon we're going to do a wine tour for a few hours. Tuesday we're going to do a full day rafting and mountain biking in a place about 50km from here.

Well, I'm off to catch up on some sleep and then probably go out. Going out at 2am is standard for here. Although I'll probably give it a miss tonight. Not sure if there's much going on tonight.