Our first night sleeping in Poki for some time now. It’s brilliant, but still, at only! 25 degC, too hot for comfort. Waking at 5am to see what progress the storm approaching the east coast of Australia is making. My son Steven, lives in Lismore, Northern New South Wales, and…
It was an overcast morning, when we emerged from our hotel room, so reasonably cool. We went to discover what delights breakfast in a Paraguayan hotel had to offer. Much the same as in Brazil, but with less cake. Only one variety, not three or four. There were no scrambled…
It’s going to be another scorching day. No hurry to leave the hotel so we enjoy a hearty breakfast and are leave the hotel by 10am. Border crossing. The border with Paraguay is reached in 10min. It’s chaos. Half of Brasil is crossing to do their shopping. There are very…
After our long tour of yesterday, we wanted to have a more leisurely day today. We had decided we would go to the Itaipu Dam on the Parana River. Not rushing and having a leisurely breakfast, we would then drive ourselves to the dam and take a tour once there.…
Another early start. Up at 6am for a 7am pick up from the hotel. We are going to spend most of the day visiting “The Falls”. On queue the van arrives and we are two of thirteen, but a family of five Paraguayans, three children and two adults were eventually…
Hotel Bender Hotel Bender was run by a lovely older couple. As well as being a hotel, they ran a small mini type market next to the reception area. During breakfast we decided we should see what the had to offer. Dennis persuaded the wife to make us up a…
Well, that’s an interesting name for a hotel, Hotel Bender, but not a bar in sight. ..:) Priding ourselves for being on the road at 9.15am this morning, turned out to be a nightmare, as 25min later, looking for a drink from my water bottle, realised it, Jen’s bottle and…
Yesterday’s Tour Today I have sore calf muscles. I’m not fit, as have been spending too much time sitting in Poki. Climbing the 880 steep steps back up from the valley floor has taken its toll. Throughout the tour there were plenty of other steps into and out of the…
Having set the alarm for 6am and hoping it would go off, but waking at 5.58am, anyway. Yes, it did go off. Our backpacks had been packed last night, with a change of clothes, towels, insect repellent, water, and cameras. As Jen mentioned in yesterday’s writing, we are going to…
This morning’s hotel breakfast was identical to Dennis’s description in yesterday’s blog. Except for the first time there was hot water and tea bags. Everywhere else it has been coffee only. The car park was full of large puddles so we presumed it must have rained again overnight. However, we…