Photos 2013: Córdoba, Argentina

Our first view of the city from the air shows the grid pattern in which the streets are laid out

Miriam, Tommy and Phil at the house where Miriam's Aunt Gustel used to live

Tommy's house and one of his dogs

Agua de Oro (Golden Water): a beauty spot north of Córdoba

Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús is in the countryside north of the city of Córdoba

The former Jesuit church at Santa Catalina

Miriam's cousin Pedro and his wife Carmen joined us for lunch in an Italian restaurant

Parrots nest in some of the trees and make a lot of noise

We're going on to Bolivia in a couple of weeks... looks as though we've found a short cut

Wrong side of the tracks: alongside one of Argentina's major highways,
people live in huts on the site of a disused railway station

La Falda is in the Sierra Chica, the smaller of two mountain ranges near Córdoba

La Cumbrecita is a holiday village on the edge of the Sierra Grande.
The father of Miriam's cousins helped to build this hotel and other parts
of the village, including the first road to make it accessible

The waterfall at La Cumbrecita is accessed by a fairly strenous clamber over rocks,
not the "stroll" promised in our guide book

A cooling shower in a fountain in the centre of Córdoba

Plaza San Martín, in the centre of Córdoba: the Cathedral is the oldest in Argentina

Some of the shopping arcades in Córdoba are roofed with flowering bushes

The cloistered courtyard of Córdoba's university museum, which was originally a Jesuit college