Football, buses and waterfalls

Quite a fun couple days! I would hope so otherwise this would be pointless. Annie and I jumped on the ferry back from Uruguay on Sunday in a big rush to make it back on time for the Boca juniors football game that we had booked. We were due to be picked up from the hostel at 4pm and had been told (categorically and after numerous questions) that the ferry would arrive somewhere between 15:00-15:30. We are sat there on the ferry and at about 15:20 I start to worry. Buenos Aires is back on the horizon but is a good 20 minutes away. "nevermind, we can get a cab", I thought. 40 minutes later the ferry pulls in. Annie and are in in rush rush mode at this point. We are already late and have to get our bags and back to the hostel on time. After a lot of rushing with big backpacks and panicked cab flagging, we sat in traffic about  2 minutes from our hostel. the time is 16:31. We had given up by this point and submitted to having to call a cab and catch them up. "If only I could go back in time" I thought. And then I realised it. We HAD gone back in time as Argentina are an hour behind! I confirmed this with the cab driver and high fived Annie. Issue over. 


The football was amazing. Such a spectacular compared to in the UK. There was dancing, fireworks, thumping, and chanting. Us foreigners out in as much as we could and I started to pick up some of the chants and sing along. The best one was "Come on, come on, Maradona wants you to win!". Haha! Yes he does! It was a good result for Boca Who finished Arsenal 2 - 1. 


Yesterday was a bank holiday in Argentina, so we decided to do what the locals were doing and headed up to the Palermo region for a day in the park and the zoo with our new found friend ´Dev´from London. Very relaxing. However, Annie and I then had a trek through torrential rain going to retiro station for a bus to iguassu (16 hours!!). Having soaked ourselves through we sat down and relaxed and watched the in-flight movie. A romcom with hugh grant. Nice (!). 


We arrived today at 11:30 after a reasonable trip, and two hours later (having washed etc) went on a half day excursion around the Brazilian side of the Iguassu falls. OMG - how spectacular! As soon as I saw them I fored up inside and got really trigger happy with the holiday snaps. the walkway took tourists along a huge stretch opposite the falls and it just got better and better, culminating with a walkway across the falls themselves where you get soaked to hell by all of the water spray! COMPLETELY worth it! ;)  It´s one of those things where nature demands the utmost respect for being so powerful. Nearly as powerful as me. Tomorrow is the Argentine side of the falls which is supposed to be even better, but it´s going to take some beating!


Oh PS - lots of spiders and lizards. Hmmm....