Our final ever blog! We've been in São Paulo state for about six days now, visiting Ubatuba on the coast and then coming down to São Paulo after waving goodbye to Maggie and Dave and Carly and Nick. Our first full day in Ubatuba was Wednesday. We somehow decided it would be a good idea to hire bicycles, so we all found ourselves on one by 10:30! We certainly got our ten reais worth out of them! In total we must have biked over 20 kilometres during the day, and...

We've not managed to get great weather whilst we've been here in Paraty, but we still have got up to a fair amount. We arrived in Paraty at around 1.15 on Saturday, having travelled from Ilha Grande via ferry and bus. It took us an age to find any accommodation: we walked into the historic centre of the town, but the place we'd pinpointed only had one room available. Leaving Maggie and Carly with the bags, Nick and I, and Dave and Jo, set off in opposite directio...

On Wednesday morning we got the bus from Rio de Janeiro's rodoviaria (bus station) at 10.30, heading for Angra dos Reis, west along the coast. The journey took us three and a half hours, despite the crazy driver doing his utmost to whisk us there as soon as possible, haring around every corner! We managed to jump on a boat at Angra's port pretty shortly after arrival, leaving at 2.30 for the hour journey across to Ilha Grande and the town of Abraão. It was a gre...

We've now done Rio! It's been brilliant. Jo and I arrived on Friday after our final overnight bus journey, which didn't turn out to be too bad. We got to our hostel in the Humaita part of the city at 6:30 a.m., so they kindly let us have a room until ours was ready, and we had a little nap. Whilst we waited for Maggie and Dave and Carly and Nick to join us tomorrow, we toured the Centro area for the day. The main square, Praça Floriano, was surrounded by impress...

We're both really struggling with overnight bus journeys at the moment! Our latest adventure on the buses took us from Porto Seguro (near Arraial d'Ajuda) to Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais state. It took 18 hours! We both had an awful night's sleep again...By 9 on Tuesday morning we were winding our way over to Ouro Preto on another bus, which took two hours. Ouro Preto has definitely been worth the hassle of getting here though. It's incredibly picturesque, with...