As beautiful as the Jungle is its filled with more bloodsuckers than Dracula´s castle, on arriving back in Buenos Aires my right elbow had swelled to the size of a tennis ball. Thinking it was a just a sprain I largely ignored the problem.
As everything in South America runs smoothly our Taxi was there to meet us, right. Whilst Shelley tried to arrange for another taxi to take us to the Estancia we were staying at I decided it was worth a quick trip to First Aid at the Airport.After a surprised reaction from the nurse, I managed to ascertain that she wanted to know where I had flown in from, on hearing Iguassu she was on the phone to the airline doctor. The diagnosis was a bite gone sour from one of the little bloodsuckers in the jungle. Now here I learnt something, when having an injection in the backside it is not necessary to strip half naked, much to the amusement of the nurse administering the steroid injection.
Accompanied by the Doctor, a friendly chap who informed me that Maradona was considered these days all of the following drunkard, loud mouth and a bad example to children, I picked up another set of Antibiotics.
Medical visit over we travelled south with our neanderthal of a taxi driver to an Estancia 60km South of La Plata in the Pampas region. The city faded away and the landscape gave way to one similar to that in Norfolk. Flat fields in every direction with the occasional grazing livestock (beef).
After the Sheraton the Estancia, called El China, was a complete contrast almost as though we were visiting a friends house for a few days. Greeted by Cecilia, her daughter Julia and Haka the dog we felt instantly at home and very relaxed. It wasn't long before we were settling down for some great home cooked food before recounting some of our travelling stories
Highlights: Some great home cooked Argentine food
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