The sun has come out to play :-D I was chatting to a girl who worked at the hostel and it was her day off so we decided to jump on a bus to a little town called Trinadade. The journey took 40 mins and it was like being on a roller-coaster!! I swear the driver was loving it!! We'd climb up a steep hill then accelerate down and loose our tummys then fly around a corner then quickly back around another one the other way!! On the way back it was pitch black and it...

Schooner Boat Trip Unfortunately the sun wasn't shinning but the day was still enjoyed on the top deck of the boat in shorts and t-shirt :) We spent the day sailing around to different islands and stopping in the bays to have a paddle and a sit on the beach. The views were beautiful and the beaches were like postcards. The water was warm but I didn't have the guts to jump off the boat into the sea without the sun being there!!

Paraty is gorgeous, my hostel is literally on the beach :-) the water is warm and the weather is too, it will be very hot if the sun was to show its face. There's such a relaxed feeling here. We hired Kayaks this morning and went to the closest island, it took us an hour to get there. It was such a small island, but really high, a tiny beach with a jetty, one house and loads of trees, birds and fish... Loads of little fish. After walking around the island we the...

Today I went to the market which is in a really nice building in the centre of downtown São Paulo. It was crazy! You can buy pretty much anything there, loads of herbs and spices, beers, a little souvenir shop, which apparently is the only one in the city. Sweets, meats hanging all over the place, fruits that I've never seen before, weird and wonderful shapes and colours, fish lots of long ones, cakes, then there's bars and restaurants on the 2nd floor. So I tr...

Today I went on a free walking tour of downtown São Paulo, they really are the best way to see a city and find out its history. São Paulo was tiny when it was founded and grew massively over the last two century's, especially since 1970 when the government used the media to entice everyone across the country to here, but there was no social holding so that's when poverty hit! The city is split into the west zone, downtown which is the old centre, the new cen...