IOM Parish Walk

Oooh, it's been a while!  But, Shaz and I have had other business to attend to, which has ultimately gotten in the way of our walk training, and writing this blog. Right now, we are in a small town called Juquitiba.  That's in Brazil, and about 60km from the 22 million people, thriving metropolis of Sao Paulo. Since I last blogged here, we have travelled by tandem bicycle from Buenos Aires in Argentina, to Asuncion in Paraguay, and now, almost to the largest city in Brazil, and indeed the largest city in South America. The journey from Buenos Aires to Asuncion was almost right on 1500km (yes yes, for you IOM people, that's around 932 miles).  Though the roads were flat and straight (just 3323m of aggregate climb and decent), they were also devoid of significant foliage and we faced many days where the "feels like" temperature was 45 degrees celcius and more (and why does the IOM use celcius rather than fareinheit, but miles instead of kilometers?). Anyway, it was