Dear Uruguay, Sorry that we couldn’t stay longer, but we have to get down to Ushuaia by December 6th and, frankly, you are just too damned expensive!! Nevertheless, the eleven days we did spend with you were lovely. Chui, your border town with Brazil, was bizarre, sitting in a nomansland between the two border posts. One side of the high […]
Brazil is the largest country in South America and the third largest in the Americas. In other words, it is huge and one could easily spend an eternity exploring it. However, we need to head south for the summer and so after having driven 6840 km and spent 58 days in Brazil we crossed the border into our next country: […]
From Rio we headed south on the magnificent BR101 to Uruguay; 2,300 km (1,430m) of beautiful coastline. Much of this area was inaccessible except by sea up until the 1950s. But the BR101 changed all that and now this coastline, accessible from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, is a busy strip of chic villages, towns, cities and beautiful beaches. […]