Arrivee a 5h30 du matin a Parana... Un peu deprime d'avoir laisse mes amies, mais tellement content de retrouver mes potes argentins de Parana. Laura, une amie qui est l'une de mes ancienne prof a l'ecole ECELA y a toute sa famille. Elle vient passer des vacances et en plus c'est son anniversaire!! J'ai rencontre un tas de gens super sympa. Sa f...

Back again, quick, but we´ve had a great morning doing very little except communicating and learning. After a dust, grime and fume ridden walk to the bus station it was good to stop and thank the girl who directed us to our current ´home´ yesterday. She was just as helpful today and we now have bus tickets for Concordia, a stopping off point bef...

Three weeks into our travels and here are some points that have made our wanderings interesting. The big cities here are easy for strangers to this big country, even with the language difficulties. Most places are set out in checkerboard fashion, roads are mainly one way where the traffic flows up to six abreast through coordinated traffic light...

I got up early to meet Julie and Bernd at the Europcar station, where we picked up our rental car - a Chevrolet Corsa, brand new. It was quiet easy to drive out the city as there was not much traffic on this Saturday morning. We took the highway to Santa Fe and stopped in Parana for a sandwich. The landscape we saw was honestly not very exciting...

The ride between Santa Fe and Paraná (not to be confused with Pánama, somewhere else altogether - there are neither hats nor canals here as far as I can make out) was a pleasant few kilometres over marshy land with an appealing countdown view of the impending city, plonked on a hill over the eponymous river. Packhorse was banned from the tunnel ...

here i am in paraná, a city with about the same population as wellington. this is off the gringo trail, and i guess there´s a reason :-) i arrived yesterday night and was faced with my first accommodation drama in my travels thus far. travellers do not come here so accommodation is not cheap. after walking around and trying many places i eventua...