We had a bit of a torrid time leaving Itacare for Trancoso. The easiest way was going to be on a touristy minibus but there were never enough people wanting to make the journey. Instead we ended up on public transport which involved one bus to Ilheus then another to Porto Seguro. We had to stay in Porto Seguro overnight which wasn’t too bad. At the bus station we had been told that nothing around the port area was open but we found a nice pousada and the promenade area was very lively, especially on “Pasarela Alcool”, the street with all [View Full Entry]

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If you are not one of our family and friends, we would be really interested to know how you found our blog - please email us at olarse@hotmail.com - many thanks! (P) Due to a long-standing arrangement with my schoolfriends, I left the balmy climes of Rio de Janeiro for London (raining upon arrival, surprise!), enroute for a week in Villa Linda in Punta Prima, Menorca, to drown our sorrows or jointly celebrate the first 30 years of our lives, depending on your outlook. An overnight stop followed at Ramona’s London penthouse overlooking the Thames (I never realised there was so [View Full Entry]

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Here are the photos that I wasn´t able to get scanned for a while - some of them seem like a long time ago now! [View Full Entry]

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Just so you don´t get too confuddled (I know I do) these photos are between Carlos Pelligrini and the Pantanal, so all the penguin and Beagle Channel photos happened between the missing link 1 and missing link 2, if that makes any sense [View Full Entry]

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Leon and I left Rio as rapidly as we arrived. We embarked on our most epic bus journey to Valencia, 1200kms away. Whilst this was not the furtherest distance we have travelled, the distance took 30hours. It was delayed by 3 crashes, holding up the trip by around 5hours. A painfully long trip. Leon and I had to suffice for split seats. He was in the front and I was half way back nestled in between several young families. I quickly discovered that my Portugese was not up to scratch to convey anything and my Kiwi version of Spanglish was greated [View Full Entry]

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all right puerto seguro ... what can i say my favorite place in brazil so far very chilled beach town more or less safe and heckeling free... a must if you come to brazil and head north in my books. the first day i met up with guga (a great brazilian from my room) we then headed off to the cultural centre and walked through some markets and watched some great capoera shows i will try to post the videos later... unfortunatly i missed this move on my video where this guy ran across the floor into a handstand and then [View Full Entry]

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6th February- 8th february Leaving Lucila was so hard. Her and her friends were headed back to Sao Paolo to fly back home, and the Dutchies and needed to make our way north to get to carnival! In all the excitement of the last few hours in Buzios, we tried taking a photo that resulted in Yvanka and marco falling through the glass coffee table, escaping with a few grazes. The landlady furious when she discovered it. We should have hidden the evidence a little better. But careful scheming, we all left to the bus stop leaving Marco behind to pay [View Full Entry]

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Leaving Rio behind, we weren´t sad to say goodbye to the rain, but a little sad to leave Copacabana and the friends we had made here, however we know we will be back in 6 weeks for Carnaval - so not too sad!! 18 hours later and our first experience of Brazilian bus journeys, we were in the state of Bahia! The journey was an experience - quiet rough - not only was it pouring down most of the journey but the driver was a loon (quite the norm here in Brazil we heard) and was overtaking at ridiculous speeds on [View Full Entry]

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Well today is my last day in paradise, that is my last day at the beach in Porto Seguro. Andrea and I had an awesome time here soaking up the sun. She left early (05:00) yesterday morning to Rio to catch her flight to Mexico City and left me to enjoy an extra two days here. Luckly we met a young German couple who were holidaying here until they go to Bolivia so I´ve been hanging out with them since Andrea left. The tour company we came with, cvc, has been great. We did a city tour on monday followed by [View Full Entry]

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Well, as you all probably expected knowing my internet addiction, here I am again on the internet because I´m bored. It´s not my fault . . . sort of. I decided to take a detour from my plans and jumped on a bus to Porto Seguro, about 300 km south my intended target of Salvador. Porto Seguro is the landing point of the very first Europeans here in 1500, by the Portuguese captain Cabral, and although they didn´t stay here very long, it later became an important port for them as they tried to defend themselves against other European attacks by [View Full Entry]

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