We made the night bus with about fifteen minutes to spare. Although Earl cut it fine as he went for number two, so some of my great 'where is my passport' delaying tricks were needed, to be fair though I didn't need to delay for long. The bus was an uncomfortable, squashed and restless 16 hour journey to the home of Iguazu Falls - Foz Do Iguacu. Once there we sorted our bus ticket to our next destination which would be Paraguay's Capital city and then made our wa...

It took 11 hours to travel the 690km we had to take by bus to reach our next destination in Florianopolis. We had herd many of good things about Florianopolis so thought we would head there, the problem was that it was south Brazil and that was winter so the weather would be grim for a seaside town, but we didn't plan on staying long so we thought we would grin and bear it and you never know if we were lucky we might catch an alright day. The bus journey was fin...

Finding a bargain one litre bottle of Pepsi before a night bus was a bad idea on two parts, the first because it was a bottle cap, so once it was open it had to be drunk, and me being the fool I am decided to open the bottle and gulp down the fizzy drink which brings me to the second part, which was that now I was full of sugar so sleeping on the bus would be problematic to say the least. Luckily after a few games of Solitaire and listening to Feeder I managed t...

It was the last morning in Ilha Grande before I found out Steve's actual name was Helder, we wished him farewell and then we were on a ferry back to mainland Brazil. Our destination was to be Paraty and it took us the ferry and a crammed boat to get there. We arrived at around 2pm and so began our search for a hostel, outside the bus terminal there was a couple by the beach advertised for between 25 and 30 Brazilian Real, though when we got there the price of th...

It took us two buses and a boat to get us from Rio to the island called Ilha Grande, an educated guess leads me to believe that this would be translated to big island in English. There was nothing really significant to tell you about our journey, we had nobody kicked off any mode of transport and neither were there any other incidents, infact the only exciting thing that I think happened was me completing solitaire a few times and listening to The Drums. By the t...