Right - well - i'm horribly behind with this - so you'll have to pretend i am where i am writing about as opposed to writing from - if you see what i mean. Well, it's Saturday 14th February & i'm still in Colonia - the Internet Cafe (or Cyber Cafe as they call them here) is closed hence no update on the 14th itself - anyway, i got the Buquebus Hydrofoil from Colonia to Buenos Aires (BsAs is the local abbreviation apparently) - the hydrofoil does the 35km jou...

The mouth of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) is 100km wide apparently, which might explain why the ferry took 3 hours. It was a very calm crossing. And a very boring crossing - sailing directly into the sun (that's east, sun followers) with very little to see..... Uruguay - mysterious Uruguay - pronounced "ooroo-gwhy" as opposed to "euro - gwhy" - a land of 3.3m people and 12m cows - a land famous for its beef and barbecues - it looks a rel...

Hola! and greetings from Buenos Aires. The more observant amongst you will notice that the accompanying picture is of La Paz, rather than Buenos Aires. There isn't a picture of Buenos Aires on this site, strangely. Anyway. Buenos Aires is a big city with wide streets - the widest being about 12 lanes wide - 6 lanes of traffic going in each direction - that's the biggest but most of their streets are much wider than you'd find in most cities. Cars? Well, fans of...

Hola! Well - i´ve left Brazil behind and am now in Buenos Aires. My last day in Foz do Iguacu was quite interesting. My guide drove me into Argentina to see the falls from the Argentinian side - you can see more of the falls there than from the Brazilian side, which i´d wandered around the previous afternoon. The falls are a lot more interesting than you might expect as there is a series of falls - or cataracts - extending for 2.7km..... After wandering aroun...

I am now in Foz de Igaçu - note: Igaçu in Brazil and Iguazu in Argentina - anyway, i flew from Rio this morning - very straightforward - checking in was easy as was security - the airline was TAM & the plane a newish A320. Now - if they´d painted it chocolate brown & given out chocolate biscuits during the flight then they could - of course - call the airline TIM-TAM - but they aren´t & they don´t and it wouldn´t be any funnier to them that it w...