Lucy’s blog: Miss Adventure has some problems
Bahai Blanca to Rada Tilly, Argentina In Bahai Blanca we got to see some local Carnival street performances. We also did some errands before moving on to the next town – Las Grutas. In Las Grutas, we stayed at a campsite. But, when we arrived we couldn’t turn the car back on. Some mechanics came […]
Lucy’s blog: We got the campervan!!!
Buenos Aires to Bahai Blanca, Argentina After a short stay in Uruguay, we took a boat to Argentina. There dad spent 3 days in the port trying to get the van. Meanwhile, we visited the Children’s museum. It is like Kidzania in London. It was fun. I went and took on lots of cool jobs. […]
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 […]
Mel’s Blog: Piranhas, Jaguars and 110 mosquito bites!
Sao Paulo, Bonito, Pantanal Brazil We survived Sao Paul! It wasn’t as scary as it had first seemed although as a city it was very confronting; the poverty, the homelessness and the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. For some their daily commute is via helicopter, while others scavenged the bins for […]
Lucy’s blog: I am the best at catching fish in our family
Lots of places, Brazil We arrived in Party after Rio. In Party we went on a boat trip around some islands. The boat stopped and we jumped off the boat to go swimming. It was really fun. I could see lots of the scenery from the boat. Then we moved to Caraguatatuba where we went […]
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 […]