Back in New Zealand

I hadn’t heard anything from Mum and Dad well after they should have arrived, so I sent a worried email. A few hours later they replied with the following final …

Brasília

On Monday the 29th we arrived in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Beth and I arrived in the morning after more than twenty four hours on the bus. We arrived …

Curitiba

We arrived at our hotel in Curitiba at about 8am on the morning of Monday the 24th after a trip of about ten hours from Foz do Iguaçu. The hotel …

Florianópolis

We set off from Cambará do Sul about 9am so we could get up to Florianópolis by early evening. The drive was a bit longer than expected because the routes …

Cambará do Sul

We arrived in Cambará do Sul in the late afternoon and unpacked our things into the pousada that Beth had booked a few weeks ago. We had separate double rooms …

Porto Alegre

We picked Mum & Dad up at Porto Alegre airport at about 1:20am on Tuesday 25th, they were pretty jet-lagged but in good spirits 🙂 They first arrived in Santiago, Chile …

Canela & Gramado

The drive to Canela and Gramado from Porto Alegre is about two hours, the first hour is quite boring as it’s all through the industrial outskirts of Porto Alegre, but …