Please take back everything I ever said about Brazil being cleaner than Argentina - Sao Paulo is FILTHY! We arrived to our hotel about 9pm and stayed in Kings Cross equivalent - but in a city of 19 millin people I´m sure you can imagine what it was like! They had carnival type celebratins going on which we watched from our hotel window. There was loads of people all partying and dancing down the street to the samba sound coming off the float. It was really cool! We had typical type Brazilian BBQ feast for dinner - I ordered a bottle of Brazilian red - big mistake, it was like grape juice! The meat was great! Afterwards we headed out for a few ´quiet´drinks right next to our hotel at the local lesbian bar Maryjane .....EEEEEeeeeek. ... read more

We arrived to Puerto Iguazu (The Argentinian side of the falls) quite late in the evening after leaving the ranch. Puerto Iguazu means door so I guess it means door to the falls. I had an early night being buggered from the ranch! We headed to the Iguazu NP first thing in the morning. Iguazu falls means ´big water´ in Guarani. The story goes that there was a beautiful Indian woman who fell in love with a warrior from the national park and he fell in love with her too but she was already planned to marry one of the gods of the forest. She and her warrior lover escaped in a canoe but the god was so enraged that he created the waterfalls and apparently she ended up on bottom of the riverbed while the ... read more

Well needless to say the attempts at relaxing a little more in Colonia were thrown out the window after a few Coronas and some cheesy garlic and brocoli pizza (strange eh) sitting out on the deck of a lovely little restaurant which looked right out over the river that separates uruguay from argentina. Apparently (and I could imagine) it´s an amazing spot to watch the sunset but it was still raining and overcast so we missed it :( But the pizza was great! We also met a couple from Spain who were staying at the local hostel and who were really nice so we ended up heading back to their hostel to meet a few other travellers! It was an AWESOME night! I think we ended up rolling in the door at about 6am - which ... read more

So where were we...... After my last email we went to the famous Recoleta cemetry right accross from where we are staying. It only took us three days but its always the way isn´t it? Definitely different to our cemetries at home. EEEeeeekkkk! You can actually see the coffins inside the big stone coffin houses, with white cloths and vases and crosses and other religous things. It´s most famous for being where Eva Peron is buried so we went for a squiz at her grave which was just like all of the rest of them really, but with more flowers. I think I might read her autobiography when I finish my current book, sounds like an amazing story! Then last night we hit uptown for a real proper Tango show. It was called Sabor a Tango ... read more

Good morning folks. Well we got here safely. Arrived at about 10am and it´s now almost 5pm so needless to say it´s been a very very long Valentines day :) Getting into the city was a little tricky, I forgot to write down the address of the hotel we are staying at, I figured the name and suburb would be enough but of course there are 6 hotels with the same name in the city area. Typical eh! Anyways, after finally getting to email (whilst at one of the other 6 hotels with the same name) we got it sorted and turns out we are staying in a gorgeous little studio apartment directly accross from the cemetry in Recoleta. Best thing about it...... the shower. I always have an expectation that hotel showers are going to ... read more