Ok, so now its my turn to write a blog, mainly because Ive got a bit of time and cant quite type as quickly as "quick hands" Weaver! My chosen subject today is food. Nic and I are, as you are probably aware, quite big foodies and enjoy most things put on our plates and, so far have not been dissapointed much. Breakfasts have been included in every hostel we have stayed in. They tend to include a lot of bread with a variety of jams and Dulce de Leche (...

So we got there and it wasn´t as painful as expected! We had emailed a hostel before arriving and confused it with one in the book, a good mistake as this hostel turned our to be really nice. The communal feel of staying in hostels feels strange at first, probably as we are very used to being in our own space at home. After a while though it feels nice and you look around for more people when the numbers are scarce. Tango City Inn hostel had all we needed, v...

Onwards from Campo Grande we took our first long bus journey, 11 hours to Peurto Iguazu, Argentina. We had to change once and then get to the Brazilian boarder, where we got a taxi across to Argentina, easy peasy really. The purpose of this stop was to visit the Iguazu falls. The falls fall in Brazil and Argentina which can make going to either side a little hassles going back and forth and as we were staying on the Argentinian side and only had a short stay w...

If we were being paid for blogging I think we would have been sacked by now....... Still finding it amazingly fiddly to upload photos so another STA stock pic for this blog for now, jees! Anyway, after a very relaxing time in Paraty we took a six hour journey to Sao Paulo for one night. The next morning we hopped over to a place called Campo Grande, a rather grotty capital of the southern state that hosts a large part of the Pantanal, one of the worlds largest...

We are in Paraty now, four and a half hours on the bus from Rio - short by Brazilian standards, nearly to North Yorkshire by Lees standards. More to come later.......off to the beach (annoying i know)