21/01/2019 – Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu, Argentina

We woke up boiling hot, to some loud drilling work outside that started at around 0700. There seems to be no rules here as to when noise is allowed, it is possible at any time of the day or night! We showered (back to the 2 showers a day climate!) had some cereal and packed the little amount of stuff we had unpacked. We ordered an Uber and said goodbye to Andres. The buckle on my shoulder strap snapped and so I joined Josh in the one strap rucksack club. Far from ideal but I fear the Bolivian acid incident is just going to continue to haunt us, as our stuff is still falling to pieces slowly but surely 3 months later! Our Uber driver was a friendly young Argentine lad who was very happy to practice his English. He is watching Peaky Blinders at the moment, which seems to be a popular series in South America. We often get complimented on our English accent, and often people will try and repeat words in our accent, as they tend to only hear American accents when practising their English. We got dropped off round the corner so as to avoid any arguments with the taxi drivers, and found our Latam bag drop. There had been a blast of heavy rain this morning, and a load of flights had been cancelled or rescheduled so the airport was mayhem. Luckily for us, things were straightforward and we were early, so we dropped our bags in, went through security and enjoyed the free airport WiFi whilst waiting for our flight. Josh got a coffee from Havanna, and it was déjà vu from a couple of weeks ago when we had headed down to Patagonia with Mum and Dad. We boarded the plane and I read and Josh listened to some music for the short flight. On landing in Iguazu we could see green rainforest as far as the eye could see and things started to get tropical. We felt the heat and humidity as soon as we landed, and my frizzy hair formed a halo around my face, as usual! We picked up our luggage and hopped onto an airport transfer bus that took us to the door of our air bnb. We got let in by a lady who would neither slow down her Spanish nor type on Google translate so we smiled at her for a few minutes whilst she talked at us and then left us to it. We have our own very adequate but basic apartment for two days, in Puerto Iguazu. We dropped our bags down joined the wifi, and Josh quickly scoped out somewhere for a pizza. I think it is the longest I have known him go without pizza for at least a year! We went to the supermarket and bought a few groceries to pass some time before the restaurants started opening up. Then we walked to a pizza restaurant Josh had found on trip advisor. The local people look so different here again, and the feel of the place is so different too. The town is hot, humid, run down, but with a little bit of a vibe about it. I like it! We stuffed ourselves with pizza and then got a map from tourist information in the bus station. We walked home to figure out a plan for tomorrow, I am excited!