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From a paranoid solo traveller, who listens to way too many true-crime podcasts. Before heading tor Brazil, safety was one of my biggest...

I'd seen a million photos of the "Marvellous City", a million depictions of Sugarloaf mountain, a million photos of the famous Ipanema...

I spent a lot of time thinking about visiting Bonito and trying to weigh up the costs and difficulty of getting there. In the end it was so

If you've not tuned me out over the past couple of years, you'll have heard how much I love the Money Diaries that you find on...

Curitiba was NOT on my list of places to visit. A few Brazilians I know from Hamburg had actually argued pretty strongly that this was...

In this post I talk about my experiences in Foz do Iguaçu and visiting the waterfalls. I'll also share tips on getting there.

I have to start with a confession. I thought I was going to have a lot of time to dedicate to this blog, catching you all up with the...

In the words of the inimitable Ludmilla - cheguei! It took 31 hours and 4 modes of transport, but I made it to Brazil safely, without...

Friends of the blog (read: me) will know that my foray over to Brazil will not be my first time on the South American continent. I went...

So, in preparation for the BIG Brazil trip, I recently took a trip to Portugal, to brush up on my Portuguese and get the tongue rolling...