Well where to begin..I´ll start with our busride into Santa Fe. It went well and we even had a stilted conversation with a young lad from Rafaela and his niece, Martine. Pulling into the outer suburbs of Santa Fe we were once again struck with the poverty. Tin shacks erected next to piles of rubbish, it´s sad to see. What I have noticed though is that the Argentines take great pride in their appearance and even in those living conditions they are relatively smartly turned out. I think travelling with the boys is a real curiousity to them but they are always helpful and courteous. It was dinner time by the time we got ourselves sorted and we decided to go local. I had gnocchi or nocqui with a bolognese sauce which was yummy, the boys shared with me while Paul had a hamburger. His face was a picture when he pulled a piece of brillo pad out of it. Santa Fe had some lovely churches and government buildings (for people who don´t actually go to church we have been inside an awful lot of them). We spent a cruisy morning exploring and then it all went to custard. Tired kids, a claustrophic hotel room and tickets booked for an overnight bus trip to Restencia the next night all added up to a mammoth headache. Our plan was to spend a few days in Restencia then push on to Posadas before hitting Igazu Falls. We are not the worlds most organised travellers and it wasn´t until late yesterday afternoon that the words MALARIA jumped out of the Lonley Planet book at me. It is apparently prevalent in Posadas and found around the whole region surrounding Igazu. The travel doctor we visited gave us all yellow fever vaccines but didn´t really say much about malaria. I don´t think there is much the boys could have taken medication wise anyway and the only thing we could do is cover them up from head to toe, easier said than done in tropical heat. Anyway the seed of doubt had been planted and we decided not to risk it. It´s a bummer but it just wouldn´t be fair on the boys if we or they got sick. Paul and I reckon we´ll be back - minus the kids one day so the falls will have to wait until then. It´s a long long way to go overland too so it was relief when the bus company refunded our tickets today and we had a gentle 2 and a half hour ride into Rosario. We´ll have a look round tomorrow and then we leave early the following morning for San Antonia(can´t wait sounds so cool, a proper Gaucho town. The bus station in Rosario was miles from our trusty lonley planet´s listed accommodation and I think we deserve a medal for catching a local bus with two under fives, two strollers, two backpacks and two daypacks! The first hotel we checked out was seedy city and I have a feeling it was one of Argentina´s hora hotels (room by the hour need I say more). Obviously we didn´t take it and now we are ensconsed in La Paz Hotel with a room with french doors and a balcony YAY! Things are looking up.