Misfortunes in Brazil

Well I´m finally out of Sao Paulo. After a fourteen hour bus ride I´ve arrived at Foz do Iguaçu which borders Paraguay and Argentina. Waiting for Rosalyn to land and arrive at the hostel so I thought i´d do a quick update.

Paraty & Trinadade

Paraty is a quiet little colonial town, kind of scenic.
Trinadade is a quiet little hippy surf town, which is pretty epic.

On the far side on Trinadade there´s a natural swimming pool formed by gigantic boulders blocking the incoming waves. I had a great idea of wading out into waist deep water to get some photos without realizing my iPhone was in my leg pocket. Cue the death of my iPhone and a six hour midnight bus to Sao Paulo.

Hightlights - Cooking an epic family meal for a lot of girls and playing an epic game of Uno.

Sao Paulo

A bag of rice and two days later and still it wouldn´t work. Then I lost my bag lock.. and an epic leather bracelet I bought off an old hippie. Great way to start a very long seven days in Sao Paulo.

On the bright side I made it to Bruno´s apartment with relative ease, meeting him for the first time as he was hosting me in his place for three days and two nights. Being a fantastic host he showed me all over the city, took me for the best ice cream and beer, as well as booking me into a cool little coffee course. He even found my epic leather bracelet which fell somewhere inside his apartment! I then checked into a quiet hostel as Bruno had to travel, read Harry Potter #5 in two days, walked about 30km in two days and got thoroughly lost walking the streets.

Highlights - Beco do Batman/Batman Alley, Japanese food in Liberdade/JapanTown and exploring Ibrarapuera park with a brit, kiwi and a fellow canuck!

On the Other Hand

I´m now in Foz! Waiting for Rosalyn who has an epic care package for me! New phone, amazon kindle, new lock, and a bag of miss vicky´s chips :D Also obviously I´m excited to see her too.. and for the fact that we´ll be going to a Churrascaria first thing when she shows up. Life throws curveballs of various sizes at you in life and this last stretch was simply a lesson in learning how to recognize the magnitude of the problem and how to deal with them.. without breaking down and being a bitter angry person, which I totally wasn´t..

Anyway my misfortunes are seriously only a result of my own stupidity. Next post will be happier, I promise!

Will post photos soon!

Channy
August 1st, 2014 - Che Legarto Hostel, Foz do Iguaçu