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Put your hands up for Brazil
After a gruelling 13 hour flight, I finally touched down in my destination: Rio deJaneiro. The blast of heat hit me instantly, especially since the last weather I had experienced was the depressing...
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Salvador We stayed another night in The Brazil Hostel. The next day I sent my CV to a local school in the hope of finding work teaching English. Arthur and I just chilled that day and made a phat...
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Morro de Sao Paulo
MorrodeSao PauloThe girls left for MorrodeSao Paulo that day, a tropical island north of Salvador. There was talk of a full moon party on the beach on the following night (Saturday). This sounded good...
View ArticleGeronimo Banda Mont'serrat
After arriving back in Salvador, we returned to our Pousada o PagadorPromessa. Aptly named after the steps it overlooks; these steps being famous for sharing the same name as the first Brazilian film...
View ArticleChapada Diamantina
Still in Salvador, I had a tough decision to make between one job offer and another interview invitation. The offer came from a local school in Bahia, who were just opening a new School for the...
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Favelas
What is most fascinating and also disturbing to me is the favela situation. A favela is the Brazilian term for shanty town or slum. The largest favela in Brazil, FavelaRocinha is home to some say up to...
View ArticleReturn to Rio
There is something extremely different and powerful about this place. Something in the air, something in the vibrations. In a country with such powerful life-force bursting from every rock or grain of...
View ArticleRosinha
The other day I went to check out The Two Brothers Foundation in FavelaRosinha. It was my first real experience of a shanty town. I met the guy outside the Copacabana Palace at noon and we caught a van...
View ArticleContrasting cultures
My work schedule is at last growing; I now work for two business English Language schools, who send me to random places teaching random people in different positions. I enjoy it and believe that I'm...
View ArticleBaile Funk
A couple of weeks ago, I went to a party in a favela. This type of party was called Baile Funk. Baile Funk literally translates as Funk Dance. I wonder if you remember the scene in City of God where...
View ArticleImposed Peace in Rio
Vigilantes impose peace in Rio slums (Associated press)RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - For as long as anyone can remember, the cracked asphalt soccer field in the Roquete Pinto slum was off-limits to children...
View ArticleGood Cop, Bad Cop.
Friday 4th May began with a shaky start. I wanted to visit the Policia Federal to get info on how I could legally leave the country, go around the world and come back before my maximum stay of 6 months...
View ArticleSkol Beats - Day 1
After the serious search by the PMs, Joe and I went back to Samba Villa to sign the rental contracts with the landlord Elvis and third partner Zack from Australia.Zack and I had arranged to go to São...
View ArticleSkol Beats - Day 2
We finally reached Central Sâo Paulo and meandered out of the bus station. The streets surrounding the bus station were alive filled with market traders vending their cheap & tacky...
View ArticleGlue kids
I thought I'd post a brief post detail the disturbing images I observed the other night.Me, Shelley and Joãn planned on going to the cinema to see Spiderman two the other night. It is located just up...
View ArticleFavelas and Ecstasy
It was Thursday night, the beginning of another weekend for me (as I don't work on Fridays!) We started off drinking whiskey and coke in Samba Villa. I - unlike my self-promise - had entered into a...
View ArticleUFO
Last night I returned home from the beach with Shelley to find some of the guys I live with in the garden. Two of them were having a jam - one on trumpet, the other guitar; another two were practicing...
View ArticleJoseph Ernest Martin
Everyone was really excited. It was the night before Joe's 30th birthday and he, Zac and me were chilling in the Kilo restaurant just round the corner discussing plans for our opening night. It was to...
View ArticlePeru - Madonna VS WWF Wrestlng
And so it began; my exploration of the North of South America. It was to start with a ridiculous flight, or rather flights, which consisted of Rio-Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo-Bogota and then Bogota back to...
View ArticleYou have to grab the pussy
After fucking about for ages and trying to convince the cab driver that we were not complete lunatics, we were escorted to a hotel somewhere else in our new stomping ground of Lima. We purchased a...
View ArticleExtreme Andean Moto
We arrived in Cusco and all felt instantly relieved. It was as though we were finally in Peru. We checked into a basic cheap hostel in PlacadaArmas, pleasant green square of grass and flowers, with two...
View ArticleMachu Picchu
After their decision to nit off the second day of extreme moto, Gaz and Colin had arranged to take an early bus to meet us at Santa Teresa; this meant them waking up at about 5am. I was awoken by...
View ArticleReal Moto
We woke at the cold hour of 6am, had breakfast and saddled up for our journey back to Cusco following the exact route in reverse trying and beat our record of 11 pathetic hours on the way in. First off...
View ArticlePeruvian friend
Once we'd done MachuPicchu there wasn't much else to stick around for in Cusco, the place was getting a bit tedious with the constant hounding from touts trying to drag us into bars or sell us...
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