Saturday 22 September 2007

A night in a shed


Well, it had to happen soon or later, everything went completely Pete Tong yesterday, well I suppose it could of been worst. I could of headed to the Pantanal, which is a massive wilderness park in Brazil with Leigh and Stew, but it would of meant heading in the wrong direction. So I decided to be done with Brazil, and head into Argentina. I left the majority of the planning at the bus station. I managed to cross Brazil into Argentina with a little bit of hassle, had to get off at the Brazilian customs with this Dutch couple. Did the formalities, but after that the bus had already taken off, so we decided to catch a taxi to the Argentinian side, the buses don't come all the often, and we would of needed to do the same through the Argentinian customs. So after screwing around with various forms of transport, got to the main bus station. Really wanted to head to Corrientes, and then onto Mercedes, but the next bus left 6 hours later, so I decided to choose another destination. Got told that Posadas would be a good and lively place on a Friday night, but unfortunately for me, too lively! Six hours later I arrived, after spending the time on a small rickety bus, not like the luxurious buses that I had been told about, and saw as they passed on the trip to Posadas. Walked around the bus station 20 or 30 times after getting to Posadas, I decided that I didn't want to stay, but unfortunately that was the only option at 8.30pm, the only buses yet to leave were back to where I'd just come from, bugger!
Had a little difficulty with the taxi driver, lots of pointing, and a bit of writing. I pulled out the bible, and ask for him to take me to the first place. Anyway, it turns out that there was some University thing here over the weekend, so every bloody hotel, guesthouse and floor had been taken. I had images of me sleeping the night in a park, just couldn't find one! Was lucky enough to find the Hotel Residencial Colon, which even though they didn't have any rooms available, she could speak great English, and secondly, they cleared some room in their storage room for me to sleep. Definitely wasn't the Hilton hahaha, but it was fantastic compared to the other options, they wasn't any. Had a extremely crappy sleep, had rainfall like I haven't seen since I was last in Seattle, it pissed down. Anyway, if your still reading you have done a bloody good job, but it was a very crazy night! I think I will sleep well tonight....

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Zuffiholt said...

Reminds me of Bruno.... or was it Bratislava.... no the crazy woman in Salzburg! Glad to hear your standards of accom haven't changed!