When my sister and I began planning our trip to South America, we each had one bucket list accomplishment for the continent. Alice's was Copacabana and mine was to do an Inca trail trek to Machu Picchu. Unfortunately, even though we were booking over six months ahead of time, by the time we had organised…
Continue reading ➞ Mashed Potatoes Saved my Life: An Alternative Route to Machu Picchu
Once again, my novel picked for Rio de Janeiro turned out to cover a much broader space of land than just Rio, but so did our trip, so it worked out quite well. For Rio de Janeiro, or for Brazil, I picked Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis, written in 1899. We were only in Rio itself…
Continue reading ➞ City by the book: Rio de Janeiro & de Assis
Perhaps my favourite read from my trip was, unsurprisingly, a children's book. Mid way through our trip we arrived in a small city close to the Colombian and Peruvian borders of Brazil - Tabatinga. From Tabatinga we took a four day boat to Manaus, a bustling city in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. While…
Continue reading ➞ City by the book: Amazon/Manaus & Ibbotson
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