(Just a little pre-p.s., if anyone wants to be inspired to travel, or thinks they can't make a difference in life, there's a really great blogpost about an incredible experience 3 (i think) welshmen and women had in Australia. Its amusing, and inspirational - check it out: http://www.ascheekyasyoucant.blogspot.com) Rio has been absolutely fantastic, the perfect ending to an amazing trip! Its a fantastic city to fly home from, with the beach culture, and some of ...

The last few days in Paraty were really lovely. We moved into a great new hostel...not to bore everyone with food details, but we´re not used to having free breakfasts and the food was AMAZING. The owners had only run the place for 4 months and were so friendly and caring, such a family atmosphere. They had everything you coudl possibly need for breakkie with so much care taken over the appearance, flowers and strawberries decorating all the plates. Makes such a...

Last time I wrote was from Cuiaba in the North of the Pantanal. Unfortunately we couldnt afford to actually get out onto the Wetands, but worse things could happen. We were staying in a really lovely family-owned Pousada (cheapest place we could find to stay), and they let us use their washing machine and fed us when we arrived late, having not eaten in 24 hours with no restaurants that were open. Friendly people like that really make your trip! We then took wha...

Hi everyone! First of all I have to appologise, this keyboard is again very rubbish and the space bar barely works, so there are going to be a lot of joined up words! I am already hammering the thing to try and make any spaces and getting lots of dodgy looks in the process,but here i go,i appologise in advance!I think i last wrote in Manaus, in the middle of theAmazon rainforest, where we got off one boat...only to swiftly get on another one! Manaus itself was a ...

Hi everyone...just in Manaus now after 4 days on a boat, another 5 days to go. Oh joy!!! Love to all xxWell...there is nothing quite as surreal, but equally amazing, as living on a boat sailing down the Amazon river! Our first boat trip was a bit of a disaster. We had shelled out A LOT of money in Peruvian standards for an 8 hour speedboat journey to the tri-border betwen Brasil, Peru and Columbia. After getting up at 4am to get the boat, an hour in the lovely co...