Happy Birthday to me :) Unfortunately I didn't sleep so well again lastnight and ended up having breakfast at 2:45am as I couldn't sleep. When I got up the second time I was wished Happy Birthday by Leo and then we headed down to the farmers market - which is held infront of Leo's apartment every Wednesday. Leo had been telling me about this delicious pumpkin and coconut slice a man at the fair makes - so he brought some of that and some very typical cane sugar ...

I woke up to the most amazing news this morning: My sister has gave birth to Jay Anthony Milne (20th May) a beautiful little boy, making me an uncle a day before my birthday. It's obviously hard not being home for this important day but I know no matter what this little boy is going to be inundated with love and affection and one day when he's a bit older he will meet his uncle. The cleaning lady came early this morning so I decided to get my things together and ...

Back in Rio and back to having trouble sleeping!?? How strange that in all the big cities I have trouble sleeping and constantly waking up throughout the night. Today I really wanted to sort out a plan for heading North through Brazil as it has become quite apparent that I will have trouble finding hosts in the cities in the North as World Cup approaches and begins on June 12th. The weather wasn't looking so nice today but I headed to the beach anyway in the hope...

Going to bed a little cold seems to be the key to having a good nights sleep as this morning I didn't wake until 7:30am - a rare treat for me. No one else was up so I went back to bed until 10am when everyone else slowly climbed out of bed. Leo's parents put out a very delicious breakfast that consisted of many fruits (dried and fresh) nuts, cereals, breads, yogurt, cheeses fruit juice and ham - we all had a massive feed and then grabbed our things, jumped in the...

Today Leo gets back and Lilian is off to Curitiba for the week. I did manage to get a little more sleep lastnight but can't help waking up every hour. In the morning I did my exercises and then headed to the beach to do a little sun baking. I headed back to the house at 11am so I could say Thankyou and goodbye to Lilian and see Leo. Leo was supposed to drop Lilian off and the come back to the house so i waited around but unfortunately he didn't get back until 4p...