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Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl (Part 2)

Monday, November 9th, 2009

As you may have gathered from my last post (if you made it through to the end!), our time in Rio had got off to a bad start. But we were now in the city of sun, sand, sea, havaianas, bikinis and the Big JC! Things couldn´t stay bad for long, and they didn´t…. (more…)

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Prisoner Cell Block Ace

Monday, November 9th, 2009

We left Parati for Rio de Janeiro, following our two full days of miserable rain, on a beautiful and sunny day. We passed a number of beautiful beaches and bays on the bus and we mused over how unfortunate we were to have missed the good weather. Still, if the weather was improving maybe it would be good in Rio – things would be looking up. And then we checked into our Rio hostel…. (more…)

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Stopped in Sao Paulo

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

And so it was, in the pouring rain that we left Foz De Iguacu our first stop in Brazil. Ahead of us was a(nother) nineteen hour  (why are they ALWAYS nineteen hours???) bus ride to Sao Paulo. (more…)

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Toucan play at that game

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Following our time in Buenos Aires, we headed north to Iguacu for our last couple of days in Argentina and to start our time in Brazil. Of course, we have to start off with the traditional bus story…. (more…)

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