CURITIBA; THE WEEK WE WENT `HOME` After plenty of R&R on Isla Grande the least we expected was to get to spend another week relaxing even more, but I should have know better at Marinas house! For those of you who dont know, in 2001 I spent 2 months in Brazil through an exchange programme with AIESEC a uni society (I`ll save you the details). My beloved host sister was Marina and in 2002 she also came to Birmingham for 2 months. We have been fantastic friend...

We certainly did not want to leave Curitiba, but a great big watery wonder awaited us and after another super nights sleep we arrived in the town of Foz Iguazu. We were certainly not dissapointed, as it was pissing it down, the wet wonder had began already. Ruth and I now being tough travellers, we headed straight out to the falls on a local bus. We planned to spend the day on the Brazilian side of the falls and then that afternoon crossed the border into Argenti...

Hello there, Well after a most enjoyable 24 hr bus ride from Campo Grande after the Pantanal, we arrived bright eyed and bushy tailed in the lovely Rio. We opted to stay in Ipanema and found a hostel owned by a rather strange but friendly lady, in a little side street. Ruth being our best negotiator managed to squeeze a few Real off the price, but compared to the rest of our travels we were paying a bloody fortune. None the less, it was clean and very convenient...

Hi All, Sorry that we haven`t been on for an age, we`ve been too busy travelling to write about it. Here we are though finally with the next few instalments. Starting with our first week in Brazil when we spent 7 days on a farm in the depths of the Pantanal wetland. Five years ago I opted to write an essay on The Pantanal for a wetlands module at uni, ever since then I had wanted to visit one of the worlds largest wetlands, and finally I made it. We were given ...

Hi All, Big appologies for the huge delay in writting this, I thinks it´s been 3 weeks since we wrote but here goes some of it; COPACABANA, BOLIVIA We enjoyed a lovely last few days with Gem and Edd on Isla da Sol, an island on the Bolivia side of Lake Titicaca. After staying at a truely gorgeous place in Copacabana on the lake shore we took the boat for a few hours to the island. Much to Edds disapointment we planned on doing some hard core walking a...