have been expecting a little too much from this very interesting sounding country. Only time would tell but for now the main aim was too check into the hostel. The hostel we had chosen was full, so we were recommended another one just down the street. We headed down to El Guembo and were greeted by two very friendly fast talking hostel owners. Thankfully they had a lovely double room and before we knew it we were heading into town to check out what Puerto Iguazu and Argentina had to offer.

Puerto Iguazu is a pleasant enough town, fairly touristy but managing to avoid being tacky. There were some great shops so it was here that I finished my Christmas shopping for my sister and Harry and Sophie. Again I could have bought loads and it was difficult not to but this has happened all over the world so I’m certainly used to it by now. We headed back to the hostel at siesta time, something which

seemed to be taken very seriously and after chilling out and sorting out what needed to be sent to my sisters, it was time to head back out and to the post office or Correo as its known in these parts! After this we headed back to our hostel via the supermarket to get some supplies and also get our first bottle of Argentine wine! We had a very pleasant evening and the wine was even more delicious than I remembered from my sampling at home. Rob also offered to help out a girl whom he had got talking to whilst cooking dinner. She had taken her camera to get her photos put on CD and somehow her camera card got corrupted and she lost a fair few photos, so Rob kindly offered to run the photo back-up programme and see if he could restore them. She was a lovely girl from near London and was here in Argentina and around for the next year. Unfortunately we never asked her name and she was heading to Brasil the next day, so she became known as the girl with no