We arrived in Rio half an hour late after our flight was delayed leaving Florionopolis. The transfer Zoe arranged through Tucan Travel wasn't there to meet us, so she went off in search of contacting them. Over an hour later after talking to many people, having to buy an expensive phone card to contact them, not being able to even reach them on an emergency number and then losing her debit card in the process - we still had no transfer! I went to change the re...

So it's now day 6 (1 March) of my time in Floripa (Florionopolis' nick name) and waiting for check out time to leave my hostel. I am off to meet the lovely Zoe at her Posada near Barra Lagoa which is a half hour bus ride from where my hostel is in Central Lagoa (Hostel Lagoa). So after all the reservations I've had about staying in hostels ... I don't wanna leave!!! I've been meeting so many great fun people from all over the world and making so many new frie...

I arrived in Porto Allegre on the overnight bus & need not have worried about any problems at the Brazillian border with my visa, as slept straight through the whole thing! My old Brazillian housemate Luci put me in touch with her good friends and sister in Porto Alegre, which is the city in which she grew up. I had arranged with Andre for him to meet me at the bus station at 8am and fortunately he had no problems recognising me, despite the fact that for t...