Around Iguazu

Interesting to read some of your comments.

Thanks Gustavo for your suggestions, but I've already filled my days with other kind of activities here in Iguazu. I started visiting the Brazilian side of the waterfalls, and they turned out to be really impressive. The good thing about them was that the experience is progressive. First you get a good view from a distance and say, ok, they look nice. But as you get closer, the buzz becomes a roar, and in the end you are right there watching from a few meters thousands of hectoliters flowing a stone's throw away. I spent there about an hour, took some 150 pictures, and ended completely soaked. By the way, I bought a digital camera right before coming from Belgium, so I can send you some pics.

For the evening I'm staying in a youth hostel out in the country side, so as usual in this kind of places, you meet a lot of interesting people. A number of European students on holidays, an Estonian oceanography professor, a clown from Madrid, a Belgian doctor working on HIV in Mozambique, and a group of 4 basques (basques, not Spanish, as they said) making a tour of South America by bike.

Today I went with the Basques to Ciudad del Este, a bordering town in Paraguay. The experience there was more what I expected to find in South America. A big mess, people buying and selling in the streets, passengers getting on and off runing buses, and moto-taxis carrying people, boxes and who knows what across the border.

For tomorrow I have scheduled a view of the Argentinian side of the waterfalls. I will be able to judge then, as Brazilians and Argentinians don't seem to agree on which side is nicer.

About Merche's question, my family in Uruguay is an uncle of my father who came in the 50s and his son. He got married the day before crossing the Atlantic, and spent 40 years here without going back to Spain. He worked here as a baker.

Sixto, Willy Fog era un poco más bruto que yo. Se recorrió el mundo en 80 días. Yo sólo Sudamérica en apenas 60. Y bueno, aún no he encontrado a ninguno de esos personajes. Sólo a Lula y Kirschner, pero a nadie más que tu conozcas. Por cierto, que Rafa se va para Espanha. Felicitadlo si os acordais.