Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we arrived in Rio De Janeiro, our final port stop in Brazil, where we will spend two days, remaining berthed overnight. We didn’t arrive until nearly 4pm, however, almost two hours after our expected time of arrival. There seemed to be some mystery as to the reason for the delay, although Tracey overheard the Captain telling someone that it...

Today, we arrived in Recife, Brazil, and both Tracey and I were on tour escorting duty. The first thing we had to do, after having breakfast, was to catch the shuttle bus that would take us to the terminal, from where we would pick up our tour buses. In Recife, pesdestrians are not allowed to walk through the port, hence...

Today, we arrived at our first South America port-of call, Natal in Brazil. My first impression, as I glanced through the windows entering Marco’s bistro at breakfast, was that it looked like a building site. Further, subsequent, glances, however proved this not to be the case. We were moored alongside a couple of large container ships, in what looked like...