Day 2 in the Big Brutha Special Bus

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH JOHNNY WILKINSON

Number of hours in the car: Again, unrecorded so couldn´t have been too painful!

Number of times lost the car key: 1

Number of times nearly ran out of petrol: 1

The plan: Curitiba - the well-planned city

Some sterling reversing from Kit the Cat Man and we are back on the road. Next game please...´Songs with the word Rain in the title´, that´s right it is raining as we head to Curitiba, the well-planned city which turns out isn´t so well-planned afterall in light of everytime you want to go left, you cannot go left and instead have to turn right and head away from the very spot you are trying to get to.

Lucky my Dad taught me to pay attention when I was in the car because we somehow I managed to get us to this fancy looking hotel - this is the one yeah? this is the one in the budget section of our book yeah? Vikki the Negotiator worked her magic and landed us an entire suite with a shower as big as the entire bathroom we had in Santos, corridors, a bedroom AND reception rooms for almost half the price we paid in Santos! Santos Schmantos.

Rumour has it we get some sort of free coffee and snack at 6pm so off we trot...only to discover ´a snack´ is actually code for an all you can eat buffet of soup, bread, snadwiches, cake, fruit (I guess the All You Can Eat part depends on your conscience which I think I left mine in a free food basket in a hostel in Australia so...) At this point we start to contemplate if we are really getting such a good deal and is the price per person as opposed to per room??!! Hmmm! We discard these thoughts until later and go for a wander in the rain in search of some beer and wine. The lure of our luxury pad is too much so we get the drinks to takeaway in spite of the humour it caused all the staff and clientele at the cafe!

Kit teaches us a game called Scum, which to be honest still needs some clarification of the rules - but we did have fun ranking the five of us as King, Queen, Neutral, Scum and Kaiser Cheif Scum that night and for the rest of the holiday! Oh, and does anyone know Shakespeare´s surname?