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A Digital Nomad Budget: One Year in South America
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 27 January 2012
To celebrate the launch of our free ebook South America Highlights, it’s South America Week on Never Ending Voyage. We’ve compiled the favourite destinations on the continent of 31 experienced travellers and today we share exactly how much we spent during our one year in South America.
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Vagobond Travel Museum Week of January 27th, 2012
Blog: Vagobond.com - 27 January 2012
The web is full of great travel blogs, travel stories, travel photos and travel videos - the hard part is finding them amidst all the garbage. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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The Best of South America Part 1: Travellers Share Their Tips
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 24 January 2012
This week we launched our free ebook South America Highlights where we share 28 of our favourite places from our year on the continent.
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Beyond the Hotels – Big City Homestays in South America
Blog: Vagobond.com - 24 January 2012
Unlike hostals, hotels, and hospedajes, a homestay is often a rented room in a private home. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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South America Highlights: Launching Our FREE Ebook
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 23 January 2012
Today we are launching our first ebook South America Highlights and it’s free! We spent a year in South America exploring white sandy beaches, bug-filled jungles, snow-capped mountains and elegant colonial cities.
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The backpack diaries – our top ten South American experiences
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 21 December 2011
So this post is a little late – over a year late to be precise – but that’s okay because we still remember every miniscule detail of the trip as if it was yesterday. We’re determined to get back on the blogging horse and we have a few great European posts up our sleeves for [...]
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Lady in Rio de Janeiro – Part II
Blog: A Lady in London - 19 December 2011
Rio de Janeiro reminded me of somewhere. The only problem was that I couldn’t decide exactly where that somewhere was. Every part of the city was reminiscent of another place to which I had traveled, whether it was in Asia, Europe, the USA or elsewhere. This was particularly evident on the second day of my [...]
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Lady in Rio de Janeiro
Blog: A Lady in London - 15 December 2011
“Rio de Janeiro is like a chocolate cake. Once you have a bite, you’re going to want more.” These were the words of my guide, Ana, who showed me the highlights of the famous city on a two-day tour of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Before starting the tour, I flew from Salvador to Rio and [...]
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Lady in Salvador
Blog: A Lady in London - 14 December 2011
Salvador is sensory overload. The coastal city in northern Brazil is bursting with color, music, and flavor. And that’s to say nothing of history and culture. The annual Carnival in Salvador attracts visitors from every corner of the globe, but even outside of the festival season the city overflows with life. I arrived in Salvador [...]
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Lady in Bahia
Blog: A Lady in London - 13 December 2011
Bahia is beautiful. Miles of coastline mean big, bright beaches and rich marine life, and the region’s natural endowments lure visitors from all over the world. After my flight from Rio, I started my trip to Bahia with a visit to Salvador, the first capital of Brazil and one of the most important cultural centers [...]
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Lady on Copacabana Beach
Blog: A Lady in London - 12 December 2011
Rio de Janeiro is called the Marvelous City. The name is appropriate for a land that switches seamlessly between urban chaos, golden beaches, and forest green mountains. In all my travels I have never seen a city with such geographic diversity, and when I arrived in Brazil I wanted to explore each facet of marvelousness [...]
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Songs for the Road No. 14: Discovering Afro-Brazil Through Banda Didá, An All Female Drumming Ensemble
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 9 November 2011
When I look back at the time I spent volunteering in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil in 2006, it seems so natural, so inevitable that I would end up in there at some point in my life. I often forget about what drew me to it in the first place: Banda Didá, an all female drumming [...]
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Things to do in Rio de Janeiro
Blog: Two Backpackers - 12 October 2011
Brazil attracts a lot of tourists each year for a lot of different reasons. With the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympic games, Rio de Janeiro is likely only going to grow in tourism popularity. But, in South America’s third largest city, how will you find things to do in Rio de Janeiro? Here are some travel [...]
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Exploring Florianópolis’s Southern Beaches
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 10 October 2011
The popularity of Florianópolis, an island off Brazil’s southern coast, increases year upon year. Every wealthy Brazilian has a holiday home there, regular flights from Buenos Aires and Montevideo bring plenty of tourists from the more Southern countries and for many travellers heading inland from Rio it’s their last chance of a nice beach. This [...]
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Jorge Ben’s Africa Brasil
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 7 October 2011
Never has Brazilian music been as funky as this. The colour and hustle of Rio de Janeiro’s streets sits alongside the tight funk of James Brown and Fela Kuti on an album increasingly being thought of as Jorge Ben’s crowning achievement. The glittering guitar work, insistent vocals and bursting melodies are the same as he’s [...]
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Trancoso – a secret beach paradise
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 5 October 2011
Trancoso is thought of as something of a secret in the low-season, one for the odd visitor to come and look around. There’s no mistaking it for a secret in the high season. Every local has their own story of meeting Liam Gallagher and Robbie Williams. It is a place where many of the top [...]
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Staged contract killing turns into a ketchup catastrophe!
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 2 October 2011
This is the story of a recent case in Bahia, Brazil involving a love rival, a contract killer and a bottle of ketchup. Carlos Roberto de Jesús, a convicted felon, was given a decent pay-off in order to take care of “Lupita”, the love rival of Maria whom Maria wanted rid in order to be [...]
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New Music from Pernambuco
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 21 September 2011
The past few weeks have been spent furiously listening to music from the Pernambuco province of Brazil. The result… this compilation: Musica de Massa! New Sounds of Pernambuco It’s been getting some good attention in Brazil and might even sneak a mention in a Sao Paulo newspaper, but we shall see. I’ll keep you all [...]
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Polish man has holiday inside Sao Paulo airport
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 12 July 2011
Robert Wladyslaw Parzelski took a flight from London to Sao Paulo. Upon arriving he set-up camp on a concrete bench. It would be 18 days before he left. This story, which appeared in The Guardian last week, is really interesting for a number of reasons. One, because it definitely has clear echoes of Steven Spielberg’s [...]
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This Is Not A Good Photo – Iguazu Falls
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 4 July 2011
The latest post from Inside the Travel Lab - Travel Inspiration, Ideas and AdventureThis is a terrible photo. It's taken with a point-and-shoot about as old as shoulder pads and legwarmers. It has splashes from water and glare from the sun (just in case you hadn't noticed.) It's also one of my favourite photos...
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5 Safety Tips for Taking Taxis in Latin America
Blog: GoBackpacking - 23 June 2011
5 universal safety tips for taking taxis in Latin America.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 27 tutorials, 12 expert audio interviews, private support forum, and much more.
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The city with it all… Rio de Janeiro
Blog: HAPPYTIMEBLOG - 24 May 2011
Backpacking around the world HappytimeBlog | The city with it all… Rio de JaneiroRio is the city with it all: mountains, beaches, iconic landmarks and beautiful people. For the average backpacker, Rio will be a haze of samba, sightseeing and sunbathing
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One last knees up. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 10 May 2011
Note: You might have noticed that it’s been a while since we last updated (almost 6 months actually). We have been home for that whole time and we didn’t want to update until we had this – an edited version of an article I wrote for the travel section of the Irish Independent. I remember [...]
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The Music Scene in Sao Paulo
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 9 May 2011
It’s now been a couple of months since I got back from Sao Paulo but I am still working on material from my time there, and this has manifested itself in a number of ways. The most exciting result from my time in Sao Paulo is the article I wrote for The Wire, which has [...]
