carnival in pelorihno

February 15th 2007
Finally, it´s carnival time. We had a taster of it in Rio and Paraty when the samba bands were practising but now for the real thing... We stayed at another lovely poussada in the Rio Vermelho area called Catherina Paraguacu. It´s a traditional portuguese / colonial place and was a great retreat in a pretty crazy city. We met lots of fun people here including an eccentric, fun german guy called ... read more

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Rod Barter and Helen Knight

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This is the joint blog of Roddy B and the Helsters. Our paths collided at the beginning of 2006 and we soon discovered a shared desire to explore this fab planet of ours. Soon afterwards we started to lay down our plans for a 3 month blitz across the southern hemisphere through South America, touching on Thailand, Australia and New Zealand on the way through. The adventure starts on 5th January 2007 stopping off at Bangkok for 4 days before heading off to Sydney. ... full info

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