So very excited to be back in Brazil ! After spending a day chillaxing in Florianopolis , we then began to head eastwards, our first stop being Piracicaba , a small city about 2 hours from Sao Paulo to visit Nino and Iuri, the 2 Brazilian sons who I lived with 2 years earlier in the Northeast during my year abroad. It was great to catch up, Nino managed to borrow a friends car so he could take us on a tour of the city…including a special trip to Choco Clai...

So since I last wrote I've passed through 4 countries, all of them different in their own way… After finishing the Inca trail, I spent my last few days in Peru in Arequipa, from where we visited the Colca Canyon, a canyon twice the size of the Grand canyon but less spectacular and where there was the most interesting museum I think I've ever been to - el Museo de Santuarios Andinos, which housed the mummies of a few Andean children from Inca times, whose c...