Rio. PARTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹 You know Rio. The most famous beaches in the world, basking in sunshine and full of party people dancing and surfing and drinking and laughing. Right? Er, not quite. […]

Hi Am having a hate-wordpress moment as the web version and the app version overwrite each other. Hmm. I put captions against all these but it’s late and we get up at 5am tomorrow.

“They love sunsets, they just do, they can’t help it.” So says our new friend Fabricio, who we met in Fernando, about his fellow Brazilians. He says his countrymen go crazy for the end of […]

This is Jericaocaora on the north coast of Brazil. A tiny village which used to be 4 hours drive from an airport and cultivated a loyal following from the backpacker community.

And yes that house is for sale. Some amazing artwork on show

The girls in Carnival masks made by local artist Serge Vilanova. This firm sells tattoo suppliers, so of course they need a roof-rack. Why are the locals drinking Heineken? This troubles me and should trouble […]

We experienced a very odd evening in Olinda, the smaller, liberal and artsy sibling to Recife. Our hotel receptionist told us that ‘There will be a procession along our street at 9pm tonight, they are […]

I would say we return to some geo by popular demand but in fact it is more due to be obstinate nature than anything.

To misquote either Winston Churchill or Oscar Wilde**, some are born brave, some become brave and some have bravery thrust upon them. We are too modest to plot ourselves on this continuum, but after surviving […]