With Manaus completed, I now look ahead to get to the Atlantic coast, my destination this time, Belem. To get there looking at the map, my choices were to fly at a high cost or take a boat at a considerably smaller cost. I opted for the later option and bought my ticket on board the Cisne Branco. Sleeping on board was a tad bit different to the normal places I've slept this time round, I'd be suspended a foot or so above the deck in my very own hammock, swaying i...

Well thank you all for your kind comments on my previous recent installments. Kind words like those give me great gusto to go writing again and to regal you all of my adventures moving south in the country of Brazil. I must admit, I was sad leaving Venezuala. It provided me with the chance to knock off two of my biggest bucket list dreams and have an amazing time whilst doing so. But it was now time for a change, a new adventure awaited me. So this is how it wen...

Well, I suppose its better late than never to come good on my promise of setting up my own little travel blog. I should have done this before I went, thats for sure. Hindsight is a great thing I suppose. So, for my first entry, Its all about Cuba. Three fantastic weeks in that Carribean Island, with such fond memories, some of which I will share. So after flying from Dublin to Gatwick and then onto Havana's Jose Marti Int. airport, it was late when I got there,...

This creating a blog malarkey is time consuming, but I do seem to have a good bit of spare time on my hands at the moment. So after finding out that there's an app to the blog site I'm using, I find myself lying in a hammock writing about my adventures in Venezuela. So here it goes! After three blissful weeks in Cuba, it was time to hit my next country and finally onto the continent of Latin America, destination Venezuela. I flew early from Havana to Caracas's ...