Crowne Plaza Hotel Curitiba, Brazil

... bag for the work equipment and safety gear. One small roller-board for work clothes and street clothes. And one backpack for laptop, hard drives, and other electronics. If I'm going for more than more than a week, whether its 2 weeks or 2 months, I only need a little bit more. <br><br>I'm not gonna write too much ...

... Oscar Neimeyer Museum which is a really interesting art museum. At night, I went to a couchsurfing meeting at a bar. To my surprise, there was a band playing country music there! I was even more surprised when half the people at the bar knew the lyrics to all the songs! Apparently a lot of people in Curitiba like country music for some reason ...

After the first days we wanted to discover the region around Curitiba and so we wanted to rent a car. It was difficult to find one because we found all to expensive. Than we found Rent a Car Curitiba and they make promotions. So we could rent ...

<br> Continuing on towards Curitiba we have at last found one of the toll stations that shows that dual wheels count as type 2 in terms of tolls and so now we know what we have to pay. It was a day of varied scenery, but almost all day was wet. On arrival at ...

Went to curitiba to meet a friend but they cancelled at last minute leaving me with a bus ticket. great. so went to curitiba and put a message on couchsurfing for anyone to mee up Got a message back from Gustavo offering to take me out to the best nightclub in curitiba. Gustavo owns an online magazine about parties, fashion and all that sort of stuff and it is quite popular and his job is basically to go to parties and events and stuff. So he picks ...

... week. And now I right to you in Curitiba ready to take the overnight bus to Rio de Janeiro. I got myself a nice hotel on the beach front of Copacabana for three nights where I will get some much needed R&amp;R. New pics: http://www.paulchun.shutterfly.com/acti on/ Tchau, Paul

... required to travel now. I don't have anymore set office hours. I can go into the office and work if I want to or really need to. But that probably won't happen all that often. So this will give me more free time than I had before when I was basically working two jobs, one as a product manager, and another as a field engineer. I'm still a "full-time" employee so I get all my medical and 401(k) benefits. I don't get paid vacation ...

... driver said we had to go to the other side of the square. After alot of walking around the sqaure and asking questions to which the answer indecipherable (Portugese is not our strong point) we gave up on the Botanical Garden and went to a park instead. This turned out to be a bit like a zoo, a free zoo at that. Following that we wandered the city visiting a couple of art galleries and ending up in a German style beer garden.

... there is a very big disparity between rich and poor, they say one of the largest in the world, probably the cause of a lot of the crime problems which the country is notorious for. However, don't let crime put you off, if you are sensible, take care of your belongings, don't stray in to the wrong areas, and take taxis at night, you shouldn't have any problems. We had no trouble whatsoever in Brazil, although we heard stories from fellow travelers who hadn ...

... bottle with my nice new (thanks mum and dad) Swiss army knife. well, as u can guess, i cut a m*********** out of my finger. I ran out to show joel and then bolted for the bandages. After i settled down i wondered what had happened to the bit of finger i chopped off. After i picked up the knife, i found my answer!!! ewwww! As mum always says, things come in threes, on the third day ...