Would you believe that Everton Chelsea football match is on live, with some crazy Argentinean commentator jumping up and down and shouting Gooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal and ooohaaaaa .Certainly displaying passion! So, will updates this before we go out for dinner, it's nearly 6pm here and 32 degrees so we're doing as the Argentineans do and hiding Last night's visit to the Esquina Carlos Gardel theatre was wonderful. Carlos Gardel is the famous Ta...

Leaving Iguazu for buenos Aires Yesterday we vacated our room by 10am and passed 2 hours sittiing in the shade by the pool or swimming. All was without event you may think....the trees were our shade and also hosting some very pretty birds. Damian was enjoying watching them when one of them pooped on my head..no problemo, I just went into the pool and dunked under...ahhaa, but I forgot that my glasses were on my head and of course they sank. I am blind, so I had...

Argentinian Iguazu Happy Birthday Mum. This is the second time i've written this cos the signal here went down and I lost all that I'd typed. Here I go , fingers and toes crossed that I'll finish this time. Today started well, the telephone alarm call at 6.45am, I was on schedule, stumbling out of the shower at 7.10am when a familiar tune came from my so called 'dead phone' from it's dark hiding place in the safe. Well, I thought it was switched off and dead.....

Brazilian Iguazu Today began in the usual Hayes fashion...exceptionally well prepared, relaxed and ready. However, there was one small problem which was of course an advantage....I set my mobile phone to wake us at 7am, so that we could be downstairs for breakfast with our passports, camera and sunhats ready to go withthe guide at 8am. Yep, we were on schedule, only when we reached the lobby it was 6.30am not 7.30am...my mobile phone has a GPS on it and apparent...

En route to Madrid Monday 1st Feb. What a pleasant way to spend a Monday morning...a working day.....and we were idly sitting on a good old National Express (thanks for the lift Mike), watching the still full blue moon disappear and our lovely English sun rise? We boarded the BA plane for Madrid at a very civilised hour ready for take off at 10am, flew along the south coast, passing Christchurch Harbour, Poole Harbour, and then headed south at Chesil Beach. I mu...