WELL the purple hat is on and after a 4am meeting at Dublin Airport, I am off with Zara’s Planet on The Coconut Trail in Brazil.

A lovely flight with KLM to Amsterdam and then onto Rio de Janeiro saw us arrive at about 8.30pm. A great night’s sleep with my new roomies and breakfast with a view, it was onto our final destination, Maceió, which the locals say is a little part of paradise.