Buenos Aires Part One Another gruelling bus journey later, we arrived in Buenos Aires. It was deemed slightly better than our first bus experience on account of it being only 19 hrs and the fact that they gave out sweeties a couple of times. We were instantly happy when shown our apartment and began making ourselves at home straight away. For me this meant looking in a mirror properly for the first time in ages and seeing that my eyebrows were almost as big as...

Puerto Iguazu So after the day of paradise that Nicola described it seemed like our worries were behind us and that there was no way we could possibly have a worse transfer than Rio to Ilha Grande..... WRONG!! This is South America after all where general logic borderlines insanity (note: I'll try hard not to sound too much like Carl Pilkington in this blog entry) It turns out that if you're not a Brazilian national with a Brazilian national ID number you can't...

Ilha Grande Our journey to Ilha Grande started rather well. We had booked a transfer through our hostel and, on the morning of our departure, a private car arrived to pick us up. We were joined by three lovely Irish girls who we hit it off with straight away! It had begun to rain in Rio the night before and had not stopped since. Road safety in Brazil is touch and go at the best of times so add to that monsoon rains and a cabby who thought himself to be a formul...

The River of January Happy New Year everybody!! What a way to start it! Rio has been absolutely amazing start to finish! Where do we begin?!! The first crisis of the trip happened straight away! We attempted to take some money out at rio airport and the machine ate my card and wouldn't release it! After appropriate use of the the F and C words (sorry nan!) I managed to pull the thing out unscathed using brute strength! Whist queuing for a more friendly ATM we w...

Hi All, Welcome to what is set to become Nicola and I's boring Travel blog website!! (I know!... I hated receiving travel updates from people whilst I was at work but now it's time for payback!!) Whilst we are away we intend to give regular updates of our trip to let everybody know how much more fun we are having than them! I will try my best to bring some comedy into it by taking funny pictures of ugly disadvantaged people and for the lads will also make sure...