Bus - Day 8 - 07/10/2012 (Sunday) Not going to say much about the bus. Our first bus dropped us in São Paulo at the main bus station and we connected to another bus for the next 19 hours. It was very long and very boring (a bit like this blog). Managed to get a little bit of sleep. Foz Do Iguacu - Day 9 - 08/10/2012 (Monday) After dozing all night on the bus we stopped about 9:30am. The bus broke down 2 minutes from the bus station... We all jumped off and g...

Paraty - Day 6 - 05/10/2012 (Friday) After an hour on the boat back to the mainland and about 2 hours on the bus we arrived in Paraty. We quickly checked in and then jumped in a taxi to a waterfall. When we arrived we had a quick look round a distillery that makes the liquor that goes into caipirinha's. we all got to try a tiny little amount of some. After that we walked up to the waterfall. This wasn't just any old waterfall.. This one you could slide down. It ...

IIha Grande - Day 3 - 02/10/2012 (Tuesday) After about 3 and a half hours on the bus we arrived at a port to jump across to IIha Grande island. The catamaran then took about an hour. We sat up top and watched as the island came into view. The town we arrived in was tiny. It only had about 2 streets. We were staying in a lodge towards the back of the town. Sarah and I got upgraded to the honeymoon suite although I don't think it was any different from any of the ...

LHR-GIG - Day 0 (the flight doesn't count) - 29/09/2012 (Saturday) 4:30am.... BEEEP BEEEP BEEEEEEEEP! Always a good start to the day! Finished the last few things we forgot and then were out the door by half 5. Richard kindly offered to take us to the airport. After queuing in the wrong line for a few minutes we were moved on to another check in desk by a very rude woman. She might not have been rude but everyone sounds rude at 6am. We had some how managed to ...