First stop - Salvador da Bahia
What's the plan? Save some money, quit jobs and travel to South America. One friend of us told us, that we are kind of crazy. We were living in the great city Barcelona, had jobs there, sunshine almost every day and great people around us. What more do we need? It's true we had two wonderful years in Barcelona, but we also had a dream to travel. For our wedding we have got a scratch world map as a present, so we started to scratch away all the countries we have been visiting together. Our goal is to visit most of them. We are not getting any younger, so we decided to leave now and travel to South America first, in hope to also improve our Spanish skills.
Our first stop is Salvador da Bahia in Brazil. So we bought one way ticket, to be spontaneous and to be able to travel where and when we want. This plan didn't work out pretty well, as in Barcelona's airport we had to prove that we are leaving Brazil in the next 90 days, otherwise we should have had a Visa. So the lady at the check in counter sent us to a traveling agency to buy the tickets from Brazil to somewhere else, in our case it was supposed to be Argentina. Only by showing the tickets we would be able to check in. She was also so kind to tell us, that Corte Ingles travel agency should be the cheapest one. We never bought flight tickets in an agency before, so we decided to buy them online, thinking that we would safe money in this way. Just for the record, we don't know if we saved some money, but we know that our plan to travel from Rio to Iguazu falls by bus changed to a plan to fly from São Paulo to Buenos Aires. When we arrived in Salvador, the policemen at the border didn't care at all, if we have tickets or not.