Tuesday 12th January 2016 – “One point eight of you will not like riding horses.” This was how Juan Manuel began his introduction to Estancia Panagea. We’d just arrived, having been transported from the bus station in Tacuarembo in the back of Juan’s truck, granting an open to the air…
Tuesday 05th January 2015 – I left Florianopolis at 7AM to get the bus to Porto Alegre, there being no direct bus to Montevideo. By 9AM I was away, and I arrived timely, sometime after three in the afternoon. This is where the plans were scuppered though. Straight over to…
Monday 28th December 2015 – I never really took to Florianopolis, and Isla Santa Caterina as a whole, like I did Paraty, despite my setbacks in the latter. I don’t mean to sound morose, I certainly enjoyed myself, it was just missing something. Perhaps the relaxed vibe, the feeling of…
Monday 21st December 2015 – “I fought a bear.” That was the excuse one of my mates came out with when he came into school walking like an old man. He stuck to the story admirably, but after about a week he relinquished the real tale. He’d fallen down the…
Saturday 12th December 2015 – Saturday morning arrived – last saturday that is – and the five of us were up early to maybe avoid some of the crowds at Christ the Redeemer. It didn’t really work. We were at the base, where you can buy tickets for the tourist…
Friday 04th December 2015 – Again, it took over a day to reach my next destination. The twenty six hours to Rio de Janeiro matching my previous journey record, only this time the bus was slightly comfier. Not as much as I’d have liked, but comfier nonetheless. Through incidental conversation,…
