A few pictures of my trip to South America

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    Sir Galahad Harmonia Mundi

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    5 weeks, 11,500 km by road from Belem, Brazil, to Buenos Aires via Uruguay, and back, via Paraguay. A few pictures:

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    Southern Amazon area, after the rain

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    Southern Amazon area, the forest's been removed over millions of acres to raise cattle

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    Driving south, straight lines for hundreds of kilometers

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    Brasilia

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    Southern Brazil

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    Southern Brazil on the way to Uruguay

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    Nice home in Punta del Este, Uruguay

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    Vintage car in Colonia, Uruguay

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    ditto

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    Buenos Aires in the distance, seen (?) from Uruguay
     
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    Sir Galahad Harmonia Mundi

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    La Boca district, Buenos Aires

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    Buenos Aires flee market

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    This sign is everywhere, dubbed : "The Falklands are Argentinian" - feel free to disagree

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    Iguazu Falls (at the border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay)

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    Somewhere in Paraguay

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    A bird
     
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    Sir Galahad Harmonia Mundi

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    Our car

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    Another bird

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    Not a bird

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    Goias, central Brazil

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    Traffic

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    A local beauty

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    A "bus" on the Amazon river

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    Snake oil at the Belem market

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    And yet another bird

    Now, back to work ...
     
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    bottleneck talks a load of rubbish

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    some truly amazing pics mate. It must have been a real eye opener, and life changing?
     
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    Very nice show, thankyou.
     
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    I-S Good Evening.... Infidel

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    Nice one! That's a proper holiday!
     
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    Thank you for sharing Sir G.Very nice indeed.
     
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    mr cat Member of the month

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    amazing....I need a holiday!!!
     
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    Enthralling and fascinating. Many thanks
     
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    MO! MOnkey`ead!

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    Thanks for sharing. Looks great!

    (apart from the spiders!)
     
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    Sir Galahad Harmonia Mundi

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    The nice thing about being self-employed is that you can, in theory, take as much vacation time as you wish. In reality, I quickly found that it was self-inflicted slavery, and in 17 years have only managed this one time.
    The bad thing about a long vacation is that your clients make you pay dearly for your absence, by not calling and not returning your calls.
    The nice thing about a long vacation is that you manage to sever the link with home, a boring-as-usual presidential election campaign, and everything that makes your daily life daily.
    The bad thing about a long vacation and being self-employed is that you don't make a cent while your are gone, and invoices pile up all the same.
    But no regrets, I'm turning 60 next month, and as the French say "Ce qui est pris n'est plus à prendre". Tones, you translate, thank you.
     
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