South America – The Travelogue.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gavin Greene — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:00:45 +0000

Having blown our budget on some other hotels, we were staying in an Airbnb in the Palermo Soho neighbourhood. It was a cosy little place, with a balcony and a swimming pool on the roof terrace, and as seems to be standard with Airbnbs, an extremely complicated system of keys and codes to get in and out of the apartment. As we were on the third week, of our honeymoon, we took it fairly light…

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Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

Gavin Greene — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:11:27 +0000

We boarded the 8am ferry and set out across Río de la Plata, one of the widest estuaries in the world. After finding the only two egg chairs on the boat, we curled up and snoozed for the trip, surrounded by locals chowing down on all sorts of cling filmed breakfasts. When we arrived at Colonia del Sacramento, the nearest town across the estuary to Buenos Aires, it was very quiet.

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Mendoza, Argentina

Gavin Greene — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:00:29 +0000

We hailed a cab outside the airport and headed to our hotel. It was already autumn in Mendoza, and the sun was setting, making the orange and red leaves even more vivid in the evening light. The journey to our hotel went alongside the many canals and irrigation systems on which the vineyards rely. We were staying in a hotel called Lares de Chacras, a little boutique place on the edge of the…

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The Iguazu Falls, Brazil & Argentina

Gavin Greene — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:00:24 +0000

Our flight from Rio to Foz do Iguaçu arrived pretty late, so we’d arranged a cheap hostel for a night. At Tetris Container Hostel, the reception, restaurant and rooms are made out of 15 separate shipping containers. Even the swimming pool is an old container. After a delayed flight and some airport faffing, we finally got into bed at about 2am, only to be serenaded by a Frenchman singing in the…

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Ilha Grande, Brazil

Gavin Greene — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:30:14 +0000

Ilha Grande is a lush, green little island, about 100 miles south of Rio de Janeiro. Largely rainforest and deserted beaches, Ilha Grande has avoided becoming overdeveloped, thanks in part to its previous uses as a leper colony and a high-security prison. We took a minibus transfer from Rio to the tiny port town of Conceição de Jacareí, where we caught a ferry across to the island.

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gavin Greene — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:30:49 +0000

For the first couple of days in Rio we were staying in Santa Teresa, an area in the north of Rio, before we headed down to the beaches for the full Rio de Janeiro experience. Santa Teresa is a beautiful ramshackle neighbourhood flanked by favelas to the south and west. A labyrinth of cobbled streets and jungle-encrusted buildings, quirky bars, artist studios and pop-up restaurants…

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