We arrived back in BA and to the same hostel we had left three days earlier. We were hungry and didn’t want to eat out. As we had the use of a kitchen we decided on using it. We went to the supermarket and got some pasta and also a bottle of red wine. It was the one we fist had in Puerto Iguazu. It was only 11 peso which is about €2.50 so we knew we couldn’t just leave it there. We had it with our dinner and we sat and talked about how our adventure was to change and become more physical than our previous two and a half weeks. After finishing the wine we decided on having a beer at the bar. Down there we met a guy from Dublin travelling on his ... read more

Well, I’m sure there was some party back home. Sixty one years is a long time to wait to win something and hopefully it wont be that long before our next one. We watched the match in Sullivan’s Irish bar in Palermo with the two girls (Linda & Eimear) that we had met in Puerto Iguazu. We had already met them on Paddy’s day here in BA, where we celebrated our Patron Saint in fine honour! I had left my clothes including my irish jersey in for cleaning two days before the match. On the morning of the game the laundry still had not returned. We waited until 1 o’clock and had to leave at that stage as the match was at half two our time and we wanted to make sure we had a good ... read more

Today we went to see two of the most famous tourist attractions in BA. Both of them were completely opposite. Lets just say one was alive and kicking and the other was as dead as a door nail. Both attractions were on opposite sides of the city so we had to split our day in two. We had a bit of a sleep in until 9:30 am and didn’t hit the road then until about 11am. We had to catch the No. 29 bus to La Boca, which is home to Maradona and Boca Juniors football team. The area we were going to was Caminito and the LP had warned not to stray off this street as the rest of the neighbourhood wasn’t exactly the safest. Boca would be Buenos Aires poorest neighbourhood . When we ... read more

I’ll get to Paddy’s day in a minute but for those of you who are avid readers of my blogs from the past , you will know that I have an ongoing battle with mosquito’s/midges. For the first two weeks I thought maybe we had come to an understanding and that the war was over. But oh no, the little b******ds snook up behind me while I was sleeping and had the best Irish steak dinner they could have. Alone in one area on my stomach I have nine fairly nice bites. I thought maybe, it would be bed bugs but I was informed the bite’s would be in a straight line. Now the last thing I want is to have to resort to the measures I took in Thailand, which involved getting up half an ... read more

Iguasu. Iguacu. Iguazu. Iguaçu. These are all the different spellings we have seen for the waterfalls. Here they are known as Cataratas. The picture’s I have posted with this blog do not do the falls enough justice. They’re so big it took us four days to see them properly. You can see them from just about every angle possible and the sheer size of them is immense. There are approximately 270 waterfalls and there is four main trails to see the falls. The Upper Trail We walked this trail on the first evening we got to the national park. It’s about 650 metres long and takes you along the upper lip of the falls. The views were fantastic and you got to see the water gush down over the side of the cliff. The views from ... read more