Handcarry Only has been featured on Cyclelove! Check out some of the bike related photos I’ve snapped throughout my Round-the-World jaunt as well as James Greig’s other lovely 2-wheeled wonders! On Cyclelove: Handcarry Only: across Africa & South America with a Fuji X-Pro1

The Brazilian side of the Iguazu Falls offers a panoramic view, albeit from a little further away than I would have liked The view from across the border in Argentina We trudged along in the 35 degree (or 95 Farenheit for my readers in the New World) heat, sweating buckets…

The quaint port town of Paraty lies along Costa Verde, the Green Coast of Brazil The architecture has been preserved all these years, aided in part by the mass exodus of the town that left it nearly empty for many years Restaurant staff prepare for the dinnertime crowd Life moves…

Apart from my daily diet of Açai na tigela (a sorbet of the Amazonian super berry with granola and banana), another favourite activity whilst in Rio de Janeiro was to people watch. Brazil is possibly one of the most racially diverse cultures in the world, and the most varied in my…

The cable car up to Pão de Açúcar, with Praia Vermelha in the foreground. Home to the largest carnival in the world, the fabled Carnaval and set enviably amongst the stunning natural surrounds of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro is the most visited city in South America. The stomping ground…

Immortalised in the mid sixties Bossa Nova hit, “The Girl from Ipanema” by Antõnio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, Ipanema Beach has been drawing crowds from around the world ever since. Sister beach Copacaba is arguably just as famous, and the quintessential model for a city beach. Personally, when…