Brazil

Six years late, I finally made it to Colombia

One week in the country and we're already being offered the "special" tour...

May 13, 2025 • Rachael Pells

Fleeing Brazil, one cargo boat at a time

We are now criminals who have outstayed our visas.

Feb 25, 2025 • Rachael Pells

Two hunters, two Brits and two vegetarian Hindus go camping

.Curry and grubs for dinner in the Amazon

Feb 11, 2025 • Rachael Pells

I missed the cosiness of winter, but just for a minute

A road trip along the northeast to see Brazil's best beaches; wolf spotting in a spooky monastery.

Jan 28, 2025 • Rachael Pells

The sun always shines in Rio

First Pells family New Year in 21 years... Nobody died.

Jan 12, 2025 • Rachael Pells

Everyday is buffet day in Brazil

And, if you've never lay cuddling the floor in a public toilet, have you ever really travelled?

Dec 16, 2024 • Rachael Pells

Caiman bothering and other ways to make friends

"Mid-life" woman fails to see world wonders, jaguars. She's great at fishing though.

Dec 2, 2024 • Rachael Pells

Londrina Calling: Diaries of a high performance solitary holiday

"One of the main reasons we decided Londrina would be a good place to abandon me was that it was called Londrina."

Nov 26, 2024 • Rachael Pells and David Hughes

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Eight countries, a thousand buses*, a hundred beds and three lost hats.

Nov 17, 2024 • Rachael Pells

Out of the smoke and into the wine

Dodging Bolivia's wildfires, vertigo in Samaipata, the many bodegas of Tarija.

Sep 24, 2024 • Rachael Pells

Mi casa es tu casa (unless you're washing up wrong)

The joys and perils of Airbnb – we should know, we've stayed in about 100 of them.

May 1, 2024 • Rachael Pells

The Catch-22 of getting into Peru

Plus, violence in Rio: one man's battle against a shower screen

Apr 24, 2024 • Rachael Pells

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