Pousada Villa Marraro Morro de Sao Paulo

Po dvou hodinach cesty jsem dorazil do pobrezniho mesta Guaruja. Na autobusove zastavce jsem se zeptal ridice, jestli jede do centra, prikyvl ze jo, ze se jenom otoci. Otocil se ale asi az za pul hodiny v jinem meste, ale nakonec me zavezl presne na msisto kam jsem potreboval. Asi v sedm jsem dorazil do hostelu, kam jsem den predtim poslal rezervaci. Uz u vchodu se me recepcni zeptala, jestli jsem Tomas, a ze se omlouva, ale maji uplne plno ...

... in Foz la ora 7 dimineata. Aici s-a lipit de noi o australianca. Este plecata de acasa de 3 ani de zile. 2 ani a muncit in Londra, si de un an se plimba prin lume. 6 luni in europa si inca 6 in america de sud. Singura singurica. A fost si in Columbia. Tare tipa! Urmeaza o zi in Foz de Iguazu, partea braziliana, dar de asta va povesteste Dragos. La post-ul asta nu prea ave, ce poze sa punem, dar promitem sa recuperam cu pozele de la cascade. Va pupam si somn bun in paturile voastre.

... wall by my eyes and thankfully the rain had stopped, hurrah! Quickly got dressed and grinning inanely rushed downstairs to leave... and the heavens opened and blocked our path.. so we stayed in and ate with the hopes of leaving after dins... except that Dramamine was heeeere to staaaay. Nearly falling asleep in our sushi, it was BACK to bed for this drowsy pair! Woke up super early and throwing open the doors squeaked with delight to see the sun ...

... have a look at the pictures below. And just when the last light was getting away in the horizon, a guitar started to sound and a girl with an amanzingly beautiful voice started to sing in portuguesse. Definitely a great place to spend the afternoon, the visit to the Toca would ...

... weapons. (Another woman I met later in Salvador told me that it is not just tourists - 19 buses had been robbed at gunpoint the day before and five people killed). I have stopped even carrying my camera at night in order to not attract attention. Which is too bad because that guy brought me to a beach party that night where he (I was talking to two Spanish chicks) picked up two Brazilian girls, one of which he thought liked him. I thought ...

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After a bit of internetting, Katie went back to the beach while I chilled in the room with my book; we both really loved not having to do ANYTHING.

With only a couple of weeks left until we return to London and with all ...

... de some *iry clothes, not quite re*dy for the thong thing yet. Everybody wore H*vi*n*s flip flops, we lost our two p*irs the first night. *Note: Buy sh*res in H*vi*n*s, every foot in Br*zil is we*ring them. We met * Br*zili*n who h*d * t*ttoo of H*vi*n*s *cross his feet so when he stood in the s*nd, it looked like he w*s we*ring re*l H*vies. Cl*ssic guy too. This w*s * gl*morous p*rty *nd the p*rticip*nts seemed to w*ke up completely fresh *nd m*int*ined despite ...

Somebody played a terrible trick on us. We fell asleep on the plane for, like, 4 hours and they go and land it in Birmingham! Seriously - pollution, unintelligible language, misery inducing tower blocks stretching as far as the eye can see - itīs everything I imagined Birmingham to be. Fortunately, itīs only 1 hour in a plane from Birmingham to Rio, which was a great relief for all.

... system. No cash is exchanged until the end of the night when you settle your tab (via your plastic card) with the cashiers at the club. The system seems to work fine if people leave the club at different times during the night. It turns into mayhem if everyone wants to leave the club at the same time and the club security donīt quite know how to control the crowds of tired people. Check out the pics!

... frog or two. We bumped into some London/Auckland friends on holiday and 2 lots of people from our hostel in Rio - it seems that South America is actually a pretty small place! We went for a walk to some waterfalls in the rain, chilled out drinking beers in the square and on the last day took a boat to Lopes Mendez - known as the most beautiful in Brazil and it certainly didnīt disappoint ...