25th February 2011
you can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution
25/02/2011
you can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution
dead or alive, it seems as though che guevara is a difficult cat to track down. i took the bus from cordoba to alta gracia - the town where ernesto grew up, where his old house is now a museum. annoyingly the tourist info office at the bus station was closed so i had no idea where anything was. from memory i managed to retrace the buses steps to get into the centre, where i got my hands on a map and detailed directions to the museum. despite this i still managed to get lost while taking a short cut across a park, and proceeded to spend the next 45 minutes walking around confused. i even did the
spinal tap thing of passing the same group of people a few times as i walked in ever decreasing circles. i finally got there by using the age old method of following signposts that were dotted around. this is a statue of che, back when he was just an asthmatic boy, sitting outside his old house.
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dead or alive, it seems as though che guevara is a difficult cat to track down. i took the bus from cordoba to alta gracia - the town where ernesto grew up, where his old house is now a museum. annoyingly the tourist info office at the bus station was closed so i had no idea where anything was. from memory i managed to retrace the buses steps to get into the centre, where i got my hands on a map and detailed directions to the museum. despite this i still managed to get lost while taking a short cut across a park, and proceeded to spend the next 45 minutes walking around confused. i even did the
spinal tap thing of passing the same group of people a few times as i walked in ever decreasing circles. i finally got there by using the age old method of following signposts that were dotted around. this is a statue of che, back when he was just an asthmatic boy, sitting outside his old house.
here's the
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