
An alarming rise in the “Goodnight Cinderella” scam in Rio de Janeiro sparks urgent foreign office warnings. British tourists are being drugged through spiked cocktails, losing thousands, and in some cases their lives. Travelers are urged to monitor drinks, stay cautious in nightlife venues, and seek help immediately if symptoms arise.

During the summer of 2019, we had spent almost a month in South America. We had visited 4 countries in a row: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay. About some of them, we have already shared some reviews and posted articles on the blog (you can take a look at the countries’ direct links), but we…

Before going I had a concrete idea about what to expect from and where to stay in Rio de Janeiro. Definitely that didn’t fit to real Rio. I expected a vivid city full of tourists and caipirinhas everywhere feeding capoeira dancers, brown-skin volleyball players and smug surfers as a part of a fake background. We…

Once planning our South American trip, as usual we were looking for information about certain places, but about Ilha Grande we couldn’t find much. And even if we gathered some reviews, they were either not relevant, nor helpful, sometimes even contradictory, and in some cases a bit misleading, too. That even made me think maybe…