After a long bus journey we arrived in Sao Paulo in the evening and grabbed a taxi into town in search of accommodation. The first place we tried was full so we looked in the guide book and it appeared there was a hotel around the corner. We hadn't bargained on the vast scale of Sao Paulo and after a while looking we took a taxi. That around the corner hotel was 15minutes away by car! The only thing of note about the hotel was the fact that the light switch and p...

We arrived in Curitiba at around 7am and left the bus station in search of a hotel. We eventually settled on a Formula 1 hotel and kipped down for a few hours before heading out into Curitiba. Our first port of call was a laundrette as neither of us had any clean clothes to speak of! Then to the bus and train station to book our tickets to Sao Paulo and a train journey across the mountains. We then just wandered around the town which had some nice colonial buildi...

An improvement in the weather finally! Got up mid-morning had some breakfast and went for a walk/kickabout on the beach with rory. Then we decided to give sandboarding a try so hopped on a bus to the dunes. The boards were essentially planks with footloops and our first attempts narrowly avoided doing the splits! However the longer we did it for the more confident we became and we soon trying stunts like jumps and 180s. Cue some amusing falls(All captured on vide...

An improvement in the weather finally! Got up mid-morning had some breakfast and went for a walk/kickabout on the beach with rory. Then we decided to give sandboarding a try so hopped on a bus to the dunes. The boards were essentially planks with footloops and our first attempts narrowly avoided doing the splits! However the longer we did it for the more confident we became and we soon trying stunts like jumps and 180s. Cue some amusing falls(All captured on vide...

After a slightly nervous journey, ?lets just go to Sao Paulo im sure there will be buses?(thank god there was!), we arrived early in the morning in Florianopolis.?Upon arrival as per usual we were approached by various locals all trying to convince us to stay in their particular guest house. We ahd been given a recommendation of a hostel by several people and so we went to the tourist information to find out where it was. Unfortunately they told us that it had sh...