The global village

As I write this I have a fantastic view of the Iguazu falls through the hotel window. Impressive as it looks , however, the thing that I wasn´t prepared for was the smell. Think "newly watered garden" times 100. It also sounds pretty impressive and last night we heard the roar as the damns further upstream were opened up to allow more water through which happens once a week.

We have now done quite a lot of walking around the impressively laid out tracks (Mike thinks that it would be a good idea to get the company who run the national park to come and manage Chiclana. They might actually make it work), yesterday on the Brazil side and today in Argentina. You are going to get so tired of our photographs of waterfalls, although we have one of a racoon trying to drink out of a can of Coke.

We now have a few hours spare since our flight has been re-scheduled. Fortunately we were told about this yesterday and fortuitously, there was some repair work going on in a room adjacent to ours when we returned yesterday so that when we complained we were able to negotiate not only a new room but also told we could check out just before we left rather than by the official 10 o clock deadline. Smart negotiating.

Off to the pool now. Must get a few more rays of sunshine.