Dear all our loyal blog readers, Please accept our deepest apologies for neglecting you so! Its been a manic, emotional and funfilled couple of weeks, we have travelled a fair old distance by plane, taxi, foot and a few dodgey buses (3 states in fact) so bear with us whilst we try and get you up to date with our advetures.... For todays instalment however im going to concentrate on our time in Vitoria with a very special person and new friends and extended fami...

Boa Noite Rio!! Well the time has come to pack up our little lives and don our backpacks once more (im crying inside!) its goodbye Rio and Hello Vitoria (an area slightly north, off the beaten track) We cant find much written about the place and havent encountered any travellers that have visited (which could be a blessing or could be our nightmare! im hoping and guessing it will be wonderful if not for the experiance but for our portuguese!) We are off to Vit...

RIO - The Verdict... I feel like now we have been here a few days (which in a big city like this feels alot longer) we can sum up some of the experiences we have had here, so sit back, i hope you enjoy the read (spellings will be atroucious, dont judge!! keyboard is back to front and here, sat at this internet, time is money!) Rio is an amazing city, squashed between mountains and coastlines its buildings and views are jaw dropping. You have colonial buildings ...

Olla from sunny Rio!! Well after an 11 hour flight filled with a smelly women in front with flatulance problems and a women behind who coughed up phlem the whole journey (nice!) Dean and I finally arrived In Rio international airport. We had a guided tour through Rio and up to a really boheimian village called Santa Teresa from our taxi driver ´Flavia´ who was i swear a GIANT! He was lovely and totally put my nerves at bay having arrived in the vast city slig...