Olá, oí e bom dia a tudo. How are we all today? Nice weather over there? It's bloody raining here, and the temperature's dropped to an unbearably cold 26 degrees. That's Rio for you though, notoriously grim. It's getting a bit late, and we have some cachaça to finish off tonight, so I'll get on with it. The last couple of weeks have brought us from São Paulo, through Paraty and Ilha Grande, to Rio de Janeiro, a little visited town somewhere ...

Lo, Last time we spoke, I believe we'd just been screwed over (for a change) by the Paraguayan border officials at Encarnación. Much has passed since then, and we now find ourselves in somewhere called São Paulo. After the kerfuffle at the Paraguayan border in Encarnación (no stamps, border official refusing to give us stamps when we went back: "nuffink to do wiv me, mate"), and later a rather good sushi, we were rushed off to Reserva S...

Hi everybody, This morning we arrived in our penultimate (new) country, Paraguay. Since the last blog we've been to the end of the world and Uruguay, then back through Bosco (Buenos Aires to the uninitiated) on our way up here. After we left you last in Punta Arenas, Chile, we went to see some penguins. After that we tried to visit another brewery (the woman what does visits was on holiday) and popped down to the duty free area by the port, where we just about ...

Ahoy hoy, Lots done since the last one of these, and lots to tell. We're now way down deep in Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia, having passed through Puerto Madryn and El Calafate in Argentina and Puerto Natales in Chile. It's cold. Last couple of days in Bariloche we went for a walk around a foresty bit, and popped up the Teleférico. There were massive dogs and a "gyrating" restaurant at the top. Then we crossed the country to Puerto Madryn fro...

Lo all, No photos just yet, we'll explain more later. We're in Bariloche, Argentina after a steptacular New Year in Viña del Mar, Chile and a few days elsewhere doing not a lot. Valparaíso was nice enough, there was some kind of cultural carnival going on for the three days we were there, but nothing on the lineup looked particularly great. Instead we just spent a while wandering the hilly streets, going up 19th Century cliff lifts and looking at graf...