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Nine months, nine countries – South America in photos and stats!

16 Apr 2013 15 Comments

by Mo in Family Gap Year, Looking Back, Photos, Top Experiences, Travelling Tags: Argentina, Boipeba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Falklands, Family Gap Year, Paraguay, Peru, South America, Uruguay

11th April 2013. Nine months today since our family of five touched down in Rio de Janeiro on a BA flight from Heathrow, London to begin our Family Gap Year travelling around the world.

Our journey so far…

We’ve almost done a (kind of squashed) figure of 8 around the continent, flown or boated to islands in the Pacific and Atlantic and are now in Santiago, enjoying our last days before flying to Easter Island (part of Chile) and then on to Tahiti in French Polynesia.

Nine months, Nine countries. Our Family Gap Year journey so far…

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Pescador – Fishing on Boipeba

26 Aug 2012 4 Comments

by Ben in Family Gap Year, Foodie Central, Top Experiences Tags: Boipeba, eel, Fish, Ilha Grande

I’ve always wanted to fish and any time I see a fishing trip on a board I ask my parents but they just say ‘No, we’ve already booked a snorkelling trip’ or something like that!

I had a brief chance at fishing in Ilha Grande but it was off a boat and I didn’t catch anything. On Boipeba we met some Americans and some Brits and before the snorkelling trip the manager of our Pousada gave us fishing line and hooks so we tried but lost a weight.

Then a local fisherman helped us and brought us prawns as bait but that didn’t work. After saying goodbye to our new friends there was a man standing on the rocks who had a big net!!! He threw the net in and pulled it up with thousands of little fish. Me and Zoe grabbed lots of them and we talked to the fisherman in sign language.

After that there was another local fisherman who we followed to his fishing spot. We stood about 3 metres apart. He showed me how to throw it in. You spin it round your head and then you let go in the direction that you want it to go. It goes pretty far as it has a weight on the end.

Me fishing

Lara loves Boipeba

24 Aug 2012 1 Comment

by Lara in Family Gap Year Tags: Bahia, Boipeba, Brazil, Family Gap Year, Pousada Santa Clara

It’s 8.30am. We’re in Boipeba. Mum and Dad are upstairs and there are no children in their bed because there’s a little spiral staircase leading from the kid’s bedroom up to theirs which could be quite dangerous in the dark so it’s out of bounds. All being tucked in under our mossie nets helps! Zoe wakes first and is allowed to come up for a cuddle, then Lara…..