.....they were the words our Rio tour guide Eliana left us with yesterday. So given it was the weekend and we had been going pretty hard since we left Sydney I told Spencer he could do whatever he wanted today. He said he wanted to go to the beach and play football – can't argue with that. After brekkie at the hotel, we put our cossies and flip flops on and headed to the beach. Our hotel in Copacabana is 100m from the beach so it was lovely to be able to ...

June 19th Up at 7am, quick breakfast and then a quick transfer via taxi to the airport for our flight to Rio. We are flying GOL airlines in Brazil which is a bit like Jetstar. Unfortunately their "hub" is in Sao Paolo and all of our destinations on this trip are either side of Sao Paolo so we have to transfer via SP each time – not Spencer's favourite plan of attack. In any case it was an easy flight from Porto Alegre to Sao Paolo and then onto Rio. We arri...