Turrance Green Foz de Iguacu

... Main comment: a breakfast without ham and cheese?! What? This makes no sense. Seriously, what a relief. Cereal and medical-strenth coffee or peppermint tea. Yum. A good hostel (even if it´s not quite the luxury place the website somehow makes out). Andrew did think the host was joking when we arrived and told him it's our honeymoon and he said 'your double room isn't available, you're in a twin tonight'. He wasn't, but it was all fine.<br><br>On to Buenos Aires next.

We took the overnight bus from Paraty/ Sao Paulo to the Brazilian side of Iguazu and had the usual trouble finding a room (went to 3 or 4 places and ended up back where we started this time). Met an interesting French American bloke called Louis who did the translating for the hostel...basically sat by the pool and poured tanning oil onto his sunburn all day. When we went down to ...

... Bus mit unserem Bier angeschüttet. <br>Am Montag hab ich (Flo) mit seinem Praktikum begonnen, ich arbeitet in einer privaten katholischen Schule und bin damit sehr zufrieden. An zwei Tagen unterrichte ich Englisch in verschiedenen Klassen und sonst helfe ich in einer Klasse mit. Die Kinder sind alle 10-11 Jahre alt. Die Kinder sind begeistert einen Europäer auf der Schule zu haben und ich störe oft mehr als ich nützlich bin, da sich alle ...

... reason that we never did figure out, the agency we were supposed to meet up with there was nowhere to be found. We had to driver and no clue what hotel we were in. We waited for awhile as Carlos (the Marina Tours guide who was with us the whole time) tried to figure out what had happened and what was going to happen next. After a little while we decided to eat in the restaurant there at the terminal. About a half hour after we'd finished eating Carlos came ...

... on my bus quickly filed through without a hitch. I hate border crossings as they can be nerve-wracking affairs as power is completely out of my hands. Eventually, and without explanation, I was given an exit stamp and was on my way. By way of comparison, the Brasilian immigrations officer gave me a smile and a stamp in a matter of seconds, even though it is the much stricter country to get a visa for and to enter and exit. Go figure. <br><br>We reached Rio ...

... that it was going to be difficult to visit the argentinian side due to our time restriction. So we concluded that, after having done the boat thing, we were more or less done with the place. Some people told us ...

... the town on the Argentinian side of the Falls (its Brazil on the other side), and took the shuttle bus to the hostel. A really laid back, humid, tropical, lush, small town. Bit like Cooktown or Mossman 25 years ago. Hostel is really, really basic. I have a bed and a light in my room. However the hotel itself has a small pool, tropical garden, hammocks, outdoor eating area. Very like the hostel Brendan and I stayed in the Everglades USA a couple of years ago. Spent ...

... through the sub-tropical rainforest. <br><br> <br><br>To be honest this sucked, the road was so flat that I think we could have done it on plastic tricycles and the commentary appeared to be in 16th Century Russian, even though she swore ...