Share Cabo Polonia a little village located on a rocky point on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay is famous for its sea lions and for the fact that all the houses were built on Government owned land – by people who just decided to build there and enjoy the place (In Australia they are called [...]
Share After a few hours wandering around Tristan Navaro markets on our first weekend in Montevideo – we stopped at a little cafe to partake in Uruguay’s verson of a steak sandwich with the lot – Chivitos – and while we were placing our order using our limited Spanish skills – one of two beautiful [...]
Share A bit of toilet ‘humour’ from Ray One of the things to surprise us during our trip around South America has been the extensive use of bidets in both Argentina and Uruguay. We initially thought of them as being a bit annoying especially since our digs have been comparatively small and it seemed these [...]
Share Boipeba – located south of Salvador and accessible after catching a car ferry across to Itaparica then a bus ride to Vicente to catch a speed boat that may or may not deliver you through the mangroves to this island paradise! Our speed boat was a couple of hours later than scheduled and we [...]
Share We had a very scary moment in Salvador – Ray shares his experience For several months while we were staying in Praia da Pipa we planned and re-planned where we would head next. Initially it was back to Rio then catch a flight north to Quito Ecuador. Then it changed to a beach hopping [...]