Miss Adventure turns South
Las Platas to Puerto Madryn, Argentina So, it’s fair to say we have encountered some unexpected challenges. The emissions warning indicator that illuminated on the short drive to Buenos Aires from Zarate (where we collected Miss Adventure) was really a warning of the challenges that lay ahead. I was annoyed with myself for not buying […]
How not to import a vehicle to South America
Zarate, Argengina Having researched a lot and spoken to a number of people who’d shipped vehicles to South America, I had prepared for the import process to be somewhat character building. As I left on the Monday morning to meet Daniel (our shipping agent) at his office, I assured Mel and the little people that […]
Things I’ve learned in Argentina…..
Buenos Aires, Argentina The ferry ride from Montevideo to Buenos Aires was uneventful – while it was storming outside, the water was calm, or calm enough that we didn’t notice from the boat. On the other hand, the storm meant we were welcomed to Buenos Aires with an astronomical surcharge added to the cost of […]
Well, this is quite “Europeaney”
Montevideo, Uruguay As has been our primary mode of transport through South America, we arrived in Uruguay on Bus via the border town of Rio Branco. The night bus left Porto Alegre around 8pm, but due to the increasingly poor roads as we travelled farther south, I was up at 2am when we reached the […]
The water fall that wasn’t
Campo Grande, Aracatuba, Florianopilis, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Brazil We decided to rent a car and drive to the Pantanal (which both Mel and Lucy have written a lot about), which despite all the warnings and negative comments on various online forums (authored, obviously, by people who hadn’t driven in Brazil), was very straightforward. We […]
It’s not as bad as it looks…
Caraguatatuba and Sao Paulo, Brazil We left Paraty feeling we could have spent a little more time there – I suppose that’s not a bad thing. This wasn’t true of Caraguatabua, our next stop. We chose Caraguatatuba because it is fun to hear Mary pronounce it, a not unreasonable distance between Paraty and Sao Paulo, […]
The UNESCO site of cobbleboulder streets
Paraty, Brazil. After 7 nights in Rio, we left for Paraty – a Portuguese colonial town. According to my primary source of facts (Wikipedia), Paraty traces its origins back to the 1500s. The historic centre, together with some of the surrounding areas, were inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List sometime in 2019. The town […]
Even Google can’t be trusted in Rio
Río de Janeiro, Brazil Despite all the foreign office warnings we haven’t been raped or mugged. Having said that, there are lots of indicators that not everything is always pleasant here… many stores have armed security guards, ATMs stop functioning at 10pm, many restaurants have signs warning patrons to avoid leaving phones and wallets on […]
And we are off!
London, UK to Lisbon, Portugal It feels like we’ve been planning, talking about and working towards this trip forever so I think we are all in slight disbelief that we are actually leaving today. All of us are feeling a mix of emotions – nervousness, excitement and a little sad. I think Mel and I […]