Hi All, well we are back in Rio after a wonderful few weeks on laying on beaches up and down the brazil coast. From Buzios we travelled to neighbouring Arrail do Cabo which had the best beaches, the water was gorgeous and the sand very white, very beautiful. From there we came back via Rio and went south to Paraty. Its an old colonial town of cobbled streets and old churches and buildings, very different from anything we have seen in Brazil, very intersting. A fe...

Hi all, sorry for slacking with the updates, no excuses! I think the last update said we were off to Brazil, well we made it. We went from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu on the Argentina/Brazil border. It was a 22hour bus ride but we went over night so it was not so bad. We spent a day on the Argentinian side of Iguazu falls, (huge waterfalls). We got to walk along walkways right up to and out over the waterfalls,it was very cool. We also did a boat trip in whic...

As we said we would, we hit the beaches in Uruguay. We went from small beach town to bigger beach town to huge beach resort. Everywhere was pretty quiet, the season ended at the end of Feb and that literally means everything stops and shops and restaurants close down until next summer, it was eerily quiet in some places - one place we were 2 of 4 in the whole hostel (and the town it felt like too). But none the less it meant the beches were empty and that was lov...

As we said we would, we hit the beaches in Uruguay. We went from small beach town to bigger beach town to huge beach resort. Everywhere was pretty quiet, the season ended at the end of Feb and that literally means everything stops and shops and restaurants close down until next summer, it was eerily quiet in some places - one place we were 2 of 4 in the whole hostel (and the town it felt like too). But none the less it meant the beches were empty and that was lov...

Here you go People THE UPDATE! Well since El Calafate we have flown to Buenos Aires - FIRST CLASS. yep not sure how we managed that but somehow got put in there, may have looked a bit out of place in board shorts and flip flops but still a result. BA was amazing! we have got up to all sorts. first thing (and most important) was heading to see the Football. Went to see River Plate play which was the Craziest atmosphere ive ever seen at any game. Wouldnt say it...