Hey Everyone, Hope you´re all OK. Guess everyone is happy because you´ve broken up from work?!? I´ve also got something to cheer you all up. I´m writing from Ilha Grande which is a beautiful paradise island south of Rio and....it´s been raining for the last 2 days! Yep- thought that would cheer you up. First we went to a place called Parati which is beautiful. Kind of more typically Brazillian than Rio and really beautiful. Our ho...

Hey Everyone, Just a quick update from Rio. So , we arrived after our mammoth 25 hour journey hungry and tired. Claire and Stu however only had 1 1/2 days to see the city so we didn´t really have time to chill. We dropped our stuff at our hostel (we decided to stay in Ipanema!) and then got a taxi to the Christs Redeemer statue. The views over Rio are absoloutely amazing and we got to see the whole ciy from up there which was pretty cool. We had time for ...