Boy, did we learn a lot in these past few days! I guess you can summarize it all with: if you rent a car in Brazil, get a navigation system, but here’s the long version. Last sunday we flew from Rio to Salvador, in Brazil’s North East. Hertz had a little Fiesta waiting for us […]
Rio de Janeiro is a city of 7 million people and that’s small compared to the 17 million souls of São Paulo. Around 20 percent of these people live in slums or favelas as they are called here. Normally the richer areas are up on the hills but here it’s the other way around; the […]
If Uruguay wasn’t so easily reached by boat from Buenos Aires, we probably never would have made it there. We did though and enjoyed among other things the rather weird mausoleum for ‘liberator’ Jose Artigas, and the cobble-stoned streets in the very cute Unesco World Heritage site of Colonia del Sacramento. After a quick stop-over […]
“Global warming caused by humans is only accelerating the natural process of global warming in periods between ice ages”. Or so our guide told us at her introductory talk before we climbed up the Perito Moreno Glacier in crampons… Huh? Well yes. It appears that this particular glacier is not affected at all by global […]
