Skip to content

Winging it overseas

Seeing the world in an unorganised fashion

  • About
  • Contact
  • The Blog
    • Suriname – Parimaribo, Gunsi. The end of the journey.
    • Cotijuba – The last island
    • Belem the capital of the North of Brazil
    • Marajó – boats motorbikes and water buffalo
    • Pipa and Jericoacoara – sand, sand and more sand
    • Joao Pessoa – a little bit of beach and a little bit of weird
    • Recife & Olinda – colour, craft and caipirinhas
    • Salvador – The old and the new
    • Morro de Sao Paolo – beauty, beaches and Brazilian football
    • Itacaré – the hidden gem
    • Moving states, Espirito de Santo and Bahia – the hot, the wet and the happening
    • Rio de Janeiro – the city with beaches, forests and the best sunsets
    • Ilha Grande – hiking, beaches and the Brazilian bottom
    • Party in Paraty – the night of the Caipirinha
    • Ilhabela – and a beautiful island it was…
    • São Paolo – Brazil
    • Quitting Quito, Exiting Ecuador, Leaving Latin America
    • The Ecuadorian coast: Montañita & Canoa
    • The Galápagos save the best to last – Isabela
    • The Galápagos Islands Part 2: San Cristóbal; snorkelling, secret surfing and attempted murder by sea lion
    • The Galápagos Islands – Santa Cruz; giant tortoises, iguanas and getting older
    • Entering Ecuador – beer, hat purchases and chocolate deprivation
    • Surfing Peru – Huanchaco and Máncora
    • Living in Lima
    • Ica & Huacachina – dune buggies and sand boarding
    • Fiesta time in Cusco
    • Machu Picchu
    • Lake Titicaca – sun worship, dynamite and floating islands
    • Being touristy in Bolivia
    • La Paz: witches markets, altitude sickness and llama foetuses
    • The Atacama desert and beyond – Ciao Chile
    • Easter Island
    • Chilly in Chile
    • Manchester
    • Patagonia – Bariloche, Argentina and Chocolate
    • Mendoza, Argentina – To Spit or to Swallow?
    • The Night Bus
    • Valparaiso
    • The Rainmaker
    • Santiago de Chile
    • Seville, Spain
    • Sagres, Portugal
  • Home

Tag: surf

Itacaré – the hidden gem

October 5, 2017

Dramatic setting – tick. Beautiful beaches – tick. Good Surf – tick. Palm trees, forests, rocky peninsula – tick, tick tick. And where are all these ticks coming from? Itacaré in the state of Bahia, a chilled out surf town paradise a few hours south of Salvador that poets, artists, surfers and hippies like to … More Itacaré – the hidden gem

Leave a comment Itacaré – the hidden gem

The Atacama desert and beyond – Ciao Chile

June 12, 2017

On arriving back from Easter Island we decided that it was time to get moving north to and on to Bolivia. From the plane we boarded a night bus that took us to the town of Caldera on the outskirts of the Atacama desert. There’s not a huge amount to shout about in Caldera except … More The Atacama desert and beyond – Ciao Chile

1 Comment The Atacama desert and beyond – Ciao Chile
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Winging it overseas
    • Join 38 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Winging it overseas
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar