We arrived in Salvador after a great day and nights traveling fiasco, including 4 hours at Ouro Preto bus station, because we had forgotten the time zone had changed. We then decided to take the bus from Belo Horizonte to the airport by which time it was evening. The reason being to avoid a 24 hour bus ride. So we ended up with flights that took from 10pm until 5am and cost twice as much. Salvador at 7am was very different from the scenic Ouro Preto we had left behind. Basically this place was a bit scary so we legged it [View Full Entry]

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Ouro preto is inland from rio and is a former mining town. we took a 7 hour overnight coach ride over night, the roads were so bumpy that we couldn't sleep for more than 10 seconds. We got ourselves a room in hotel dampo checking in at 6am. Boy they were pleased to see us. After catching up on some Zzzz we took a wander etc. We could only take one night at the hotel where your wet things seem to get wetter and the sound of communal peeing became a bit of a distraction. So we found a much nicer [View Full Entry]

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AM - So we made it from Buzios to Rio a 5 hours journey in the back of a converted transit van!!! The Ipenema Inn what a beauty straight out of the 70´s right of the sea front. We didn´t go the the sambadrome but we accidentally managed to walk into 3 street parties on different days!!! The party in Leblon was a large truck with speakers on the sides and people singing on the top with the words 'RICK SOUND´ written across the top. Today Elliott took me on a 5 hour trip to so called local favorite restaurant we [View Full Entry]

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Hola everyone. At last we arrived on Monday very tired after a delayed flight and 2.5 hour car ride to Buzios. Abbey aready has sunburn (sorry mum) I did put sunblock on!! We are slowly trying to learn the language, but were both not to good yet, no worries we have some time to learn. We are just chilling by the beach and pool reading and drawing etc.... Anyway check out some pictures. All our Love Abbey and Elmo [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone The biggest adventure of our travels so far is being snowed in in Rugby at my parents house no worries will be sitting on a beach on Monday. Hope you are all well All our love Abbey and Elmo [View Full Entry]

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