Córdoba part 2

Yesterday I flew to Cordoba again, this time taking a longer route and doing some 'Nav' practice along the way. I decided to fly east over the mountains and then north, trying out a few mountain flying techniques that I've been reading about (Flying the Mountains by Fletcher Anderson: thanks to Paul Burton for the recommendation). The mountain on the left is at 4750ft, and at 5500ft I was not far from the top. The tricky thing with mountains is the wind and weather. As you can see the weather was fine. The wind was light AND blowing from me towards the mountain. That means that any turbulence and downdrafts would be on the other side.

Cordoba is an interesting airfield because it has all the facilities of a major city airport, including a terminal, runway lighting, security (no suspicious packages here, except for my lunch) and a full compliment of airport staff. The only thing missing is a radio operator. There is a control tower and a tower frequency, but no controller. So coming in, the correct procedure is to fly over the runway at 1500ft, look at the windsock to determine which runway to land on, all the time making 'blind calls' on the tower frequency for the benefit of other air traffic. Good preparation for Africa perhaps..?