A 21 hour bus journey which should have taken 14 hours led us from Florianopolis to Foz do Iguacu. We left Florianopolis at 6pm after spending a really relaxing day on the beach, around 9pm however our bus stopped moving, we didn’t really pay attention as we were just listening to audio books and half […]
Read MoreImagine yourself on a white sandy beach and blue ocean… Okay got it? That is Florianópolis, or Floripa for short. After a six hour bus journey from Curitiba we arrived at our next destination. Arriving to a full house, our AirB&B hosts Karen and Phillip just had their first child only three days prior our […]
Read MoreOn the morning of Sunday (25th) we left Sao Paulo via another long bus journey: 6 hours – and made it successfully to Curitiba. Curitiba wasn’t a city that stood out to us initially: it’s just commonly used as a quick 1 or 2 night detour instead of doing the whole hog of an 11 hour […]
Read MoreAfter a long six hours from Paraty to Sao Paulo we were knackered (well I was knackered). I caught my first travel bug thanks to a snotty traveller back in our Paraty hostel… yeah thanks for that. So we decided that we should get a taxi from the bus station to the hostel. After our […]
Read MoreA 4 hour coach journey from Rio landed us in Paraty, where we’ve spent 2 relaxing days. A lovely little town featuring cobblestoned streets where cars are banned, colourful boats, lapping seas and fancy fish restaurants accompanied by the smell of log fires in the air make it feel oddly like a tropical version of […]
Read MoreJust writing this post from our hostel in Paraty overlooking the pool and lovely rainforest come tropical-esque scenery as we didn’t have time last night to do a write up – we went straight to the weekly Monday Samba night upon arrival in Paraty. This was awesome we had some caipirinha’s in the hostel bar and […]
Read MoreWe didn’t have any solid plans for today so decided to get the bus to Gloria and have a walk around. We stumbled upon a very bustling Sunday market which had some of the craziest looking fruit I had seen, not to mention crabs and lobsters still alive strung to poles – so many sensations […]
Read MoreAfter what felt like the best night sleep.. approx. 12 hours, Alex and I woke up to tropical birds singing or monkey sounds — can’t really tell the difference. Rio looks so much better in the sun. It was about 30 degrees and everything looked far more vibrant. After the great night sleep we were starving […]
Read More19:18 in Rio after a very tiring, semi-cloudy day.. although still feeling like the 23:19 local UK time. My head currently feels like a foggy sponge. With over 36 hours of straight travelling, and less than 5 solid hours sleep — accompanied by a full day of walking the bustling streets of Rio; tonights sleep […]
Read MoreSo this is it! The next time I will blog we’ll be on the other side of the world. I can’t really describe how I’m feeling at the moment. The best way I can describe it is that I want time to speed up, I feel like there’s constant waiting and I’m apprehensive, yet I […]
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