Hi all We are writing this blog update from Ilha Santa Catarina - we leave here today heading for Montevideo, Uruguay. It is currently raining enormous cats and dogs out there... think we might get a touch on the wet side en route to getting our coach later this morning. Time for our macs to come out! So since our last blog update we went to Foz do Iguacu where we saw the beautiful Iguacu Falls... what a sight! They were really impressive and on the Argentin...

Hello all from Rio... We are just at the end of our first leg of our big adventure - arrived in Rio on Monday night very late, after a tearful farewell at Heathrow T5... lots of love and cuddles exchanged with family and then off we trotted! A very cool place to kick off the travels, in a real nice hostel in Santa Teresa, a very cool, boho district of the city... good base to explore and we have met some great people already - swapping routes, experiences, emai...