Its like a slow-motion pre-studder, but its actually an accent...
Bobby and I went to Villa Carlos Paz, a little resort town in the province of Cordoba. View of the town and its lake, the Lago San Roque.
The Cordobeses have the most bizarre accent. Bobby and I can't figure it out, and we love accents - but we cant put on finger on how to imitate it at all. They'll stretch out random syllables in the middle of the word. Ex: Cordooobes, taaambien
Like when you communicate with a studderer, you kind of get caught on the word they are trying to say - you kind of follow that word with them until they complete it. Well, this isn't a speech impediment...its an accent dammit! The rest of the time they sound pretty Argentine except for the occasional dropping of the last letter some word. Ex: Carlos Pa (instead of Carlos Paz).
The day we got there we were just walking around and this crazy train/bus thing stops and we jump on board...hilarious driver that cracked jokes all the time, and he was playing this horrible music...something a la reggaeton, but different. We got a kick out of it. Check out the little guy who got us to go on board...he was saying he wasn't handsome, I told him he reminded me very much of Heath Ledger. Click on the pic and see if you agree.
We did a couple of of 1/2 day trips. Every other person on these tours was female, very short and 65+ except for one older man, and one poor fellow who was in his 40's and retarded. Check out these geriatric thumbelinas near Bobby. The one with her back most to the camera is 88! The tour bus is basically about a 20-seater and the driver has a mic and cracks jokes and touristy information. You stop occassionally, take pics buy stuff and keep going. Takes aobut 6-7 hours, pretty cool though.
A mountain on the way out of or into a town called Cosquin where the national folkloric music festival is held every year. The mountain is said to resemble the boob of a young indian girl. I agree. Very indigenously booby.
A very old Jesuit mission in Alta Gracia, one of the towns we stopped through. The Jesuits were kicked out of the continent by Carlos III of Spain...not sure why, and too lazy to find out right now....
Che Guevarra's house, also in Alta Gracia...
We stopped at this mini touristy area and there was this garden with a crazy labrynth. I believe we were in there about 40 mins and couldn't figure it out. We eventually made our way back toward the entrance...I loved the whole thing though. So Alice in Wonderland!!!!! Its quite admirable how much work it must take to keep that labrynth in tip-top shape. Lots of hedges. Many Many.
Bobby in the labrynth....new POV.
A shot of Villa General Belgrano - a German colony that actually became home to some young German u-boat sailors back during the WWII. Some remained, others went back to the Fatherland once the war was over.
They even have lovely German trash bins....
and piping hot German food. Check out the steam!
There is a rock formation called "The Shoe" - look and see why...its located in a town called Capilla del Monte, a kind of like Roswell, alien sightings and believers of all sorts of mysticism etc.
Baby goat at the famous "Shoe"
Meditating on some rocks near the mighty shoe.
On the way home...interrupted a bit by the wires, but nevertheless, gorgeous. The clouds look edible, dont they? Like creamy icing in the sky - forgive me if it sounds trite, but it really was my first impression - completely edible...
And last but not least, Villa Carlos Paz had one of the most bizarre street names. Just felt I had to document it. Pronounceable, but definitely challenging at first glance, wouldn't you say?
The Cordobeses have the most bizarre accent. Bobby and I can't figure it out, and we love accents - but we cant put on finger on how to imitate it at all. They'll stretch out random syllables in the middle of the word. Ex: Cordooobes, taaambienLike when you communicate with a studderer, you kind of get caught on the word they are trying to say - you kind of follow that word with them until they complete it. Well, this isn't a speech impediment...its an accent dammit! The rest of the time they sound pretty Argentine except for the occasional dropping of the last letter some word. Ex: Carlos Pa (instead of Carlos Paz).
The day we got there we were just walking around and this crazy train/bus thing stops and we jump on board...hilarious driver that cracked jokes all the time, and he was playing this horrible music...something a la reggaeton, but different. We got a kick out of it. Check out the little guy who got us to go on board...he was saying he wasn't handsome, I told him he reminded me very much of Heath Ledger. Click on the pic and see if you agree.
We did a couple of of 1/2 day trips. Every other person on these tours was female, very short and 65+ except for one older man, and one poor fellow who was in his 40's and retarded. Check out these geriatric thumbelinas near Bobby. The one with her back most to the camera is 88! The tour bus is basically about a 20-seater and the driver has a mic and cracks jokes and touristy information. You stop occassionally, take pics buy stuff and keep going. Takes aobut 6-7 hours, pretty cool though.
A mountain on the way out of or into a town called Cosquin where the national folkloric music festival is held every year. The mountain is said to resemble the boob of a young indian girl. I agree. Very indigenously booby.
A very old Jesuit mission in Alta Gracia, one of the towns we stopped through. The Jesuits were kicked out of the continent by Carlos III of Spain...not sure why, and too lazy to find out right now....
Che Guevarra's house, also in Alta Gracia...
We stopped at this mini touristy area and there was this garden with a crazy labrynth. I believe we were in there about 40 mins and couldn't figure it out. We eventually made our way back toward the entrance...I loved the whole thing though. So Alice in Wonderland!!!!! Its quite admirable how much work it must take to keep that labrynth in tip-top shape. Lots of hedges. Many Many.
Bobby in the labrynth....new POV.
A shot of Villa General Belgrano - a German colony that actually became home to some young German u-boat sailors back during the WWII. Some remained, others went back to the Fatherland once the war was over.
They even have lovely German trash bins....
and piping hot German food. Check out the steam!
There is a rock formation called "The Shoe" - look and see why...its located in a town called Capilla del Monte, a kind of like Roswell, alien sightings and believers of all sorts of mysticism etc.
Baby goat at the famous "Shoe"
Meditating on some rocks near the mighty shoe.
On the way home...interrupted a bit by the wires, but nevertheless, gorgeous. The clouds look edible, dont they? Like creamy icing in the sky - forgive me if it sounds trite, but it really was my first impression - completely edible...
And last but not least, Villa Carlos Paz had one of the most bizarre street names. Just felt I had to document it. Pronounceable, but definitely challenging at first glance, wouldn't you say?
1 Comments:
Geriatric Thumbelinas!!! That is a great, amazing, beautiful metaphor, btw Bobby looks sooo tall standing next to Heath Ledger... didn't know he was so short. :)
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