19th of Jan - 23rd of Jan - welcome to the five star luxury cruiser, final destination Puerto Velho. For your convenience, you'll be sharing your room with 60 other people in hammocks and no doubt someone's bum in your face all night. The facilities will consist of three shower/toilet combo rooms that depending on how clean you insist on being for the trip, you may or may not use. Please arrive in plenty of time because like all good transportation, departure wi...

And we're off - welcome one and all to this the new way of keeping in touch - also the new way of not forgetting to email everyone and upsetting peeps, because I think you're all fab. Okay, a brief history so far....... 11th of Jan - moved out of my house 14th of Jan - left job - unchararistically cried multiple times during the day 14th of Jan, evening - off to Heathrow for my new adventure....... 15th of Jan, morning, landed in Sao Paulo and after a f...