Blogs from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, South America - page 7

After spending months in the smog and dirt of South American cities we needed a break! There was no better place to do this than ilha do mel (honey island), a tiny desert island not far from Curitiba in the South of Brasil. To get to our desert island retreat and relax all we needed to do was spend 10 hours on a bus, 3 hours on a train (after waiting for the station to open for 2 hours!), 2 hours on a bus then 2 and a half hours on a little fishing boat ( after waiting 3 hours for it!), then a half hour walk through a forest to our hostel!!! It was worth it htough and the island was about as close to a deserted island paradise as you can get anywhere. ... read more

If you cant be in Germany for the world cup, the second best place to be is brazil. This nation is futbol obsessed. everywhere you look, every store, in windows, on the streets, they are displaying their national colors- green, yellow and blue. everyone is selling brazil appearal. It is so much fun. Every night on the news, its just hours of repeats of games or analysis or highlights. these people eat, sleep and breath futbol. so woke up sunday and got ready to go to a bbq/ party for the game. we had probably at least 10 different types of meat, salad and leftover desserts from the wedding. Game time, the streets are empty. all the shops and businesses are closed. everyone is watching the game and decked from head to toe in brazil colors. ... read more

There isn't so much to say about Curitiba so much as there is to see. I know this: Curitiba, which was named for its copious pine trees that have since been replaced by buildings, is a paragon of urban planning excellence and is globally considered so. I adore the architecture here. Also, we spent a lot of time not doing anything, what with Eden's fever and shitting her brains out. But thanks to Aureo, his extraordinarily generous family, and the Couch Surfing Project that brought us all together, we hadn't to worry about beds or toilets. (Also, thanks to the miracle of antibiotics and Eden's ingesting of them, we'll both be in peak physical condition for Iguazu Falls on Monday. That's right, there's no reason the both of us shouldn't be perfectly healthy on Monday, for ... read more

We arrived at Curitiba at 6.45 am after a comfortable journey on the Leito. We had a coffee/tea in the bus station cafe to re-energise ourselves then headed off to the train station to get the tourist train to Paranagua. The journey was advertised as a scenic, romantic journey through the mountainous atlantic rainforest of the South-East of Brazil. What they don´t advertise is the fact that it only runs once a day at a time when civilised people are re-energising themselves over coffee/tea in the bus station. Nor do they advertise that the train is only a tourist train on weekends so is not the luxurious air-conditioned train either, nor does it run all the way to Parangua, it now only went to the stop before, Morretes. Flexible as we are we decided the best ... read more

Olááááá! Bom, houveram algumas mudanças de planos! O Fábio não irá mais pra IDAHO, pois a vaga dele em SUN VALLEY foi cancelada! Agora ele vai pra Flórida, lugar quente... mais movimentado... hihi por um lado eh bom e por outro é ruim...! Vamos ver o que vai dar ... então acho que ele nem vai conseguir se manter muito na internet... mas de repente vai que dá certo, e ele larga mão de ser preguissoo e coloca fotus aqui pra gente ver! Também nem sei se eu vou conseguir manter muito contato, mas se der eu atualizo aqui sempre que der! **hey hey hey**... read more