• Chance encounters in the Pantanal

    And so there I was, for the second time within a week, on the back of a horse. ‘Princeza’ is owned by Fazenda Aguapé in the southern part of the Pantanal, where we are staying a few days. The advantage of horseback riding is that you become a lot less muddy than if you were […]

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  • Start of our third world trip: the Pantanal

    When is a world trip a world trip? Do you have to travel around the world? Or is it just a trip that’s a lot longer than the average vacation? Let’s stick with the latter. We have just started another long journey. Four and a half months. Again. That’s pretty long. Our plan is to […]

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  • Argentina & Chile – Wine country

    At our bed & breakfast in Valparaíso, Chile, we heard an interesting story about a group of French wine producers visiting the Chilean wine regions. When they were explaining that they were not on holiday but there to find out why French wine is losing so much market share to Chilean wine, an English guy, […]

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  • Brazil – Amazon

    The past two weeks have flown by very rapidly. Erwin managed to stand on his kite surf board for all of 2 seconds after the last day of his course, but both his teacher and he claim this is due to a lack of wind. Sure, babe. During our stay at the Tiwa resort in […]

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