Rio de Janeiro, the city of god, a place that I was VERY excited to go to, and I have to be honest, I was slightly disappointed by it.. but I think that's only because I had such high expectations, because it is still a very cool city! There are some very cool things to see there, and we did most of them I think, spending A LOT of money in the process! Rio is very expensive! Obviously we went to the famous beaches, Copacabana and Ipanema, which are nice beaches,...

Of course pretty much everywhere we've been in Brazil has been like paradise compared to England, but Paraty and Ihla Grande really were like the typical idea that you have of Brazil, sun, beach and jungle! We stayed with a guy called Athos up in the mountains, where there was an amazing view of the town and the rainforest. Of course we got bitten to s*** by mosquitos, but we managed to avoid seeing snakes! (they'd found an enormous snake in his girlfriend's gar...

We continued our journey to a small town North of Florianopolis called Porto Belo (like the song in bedknobs and broomsticks, Portobello road, which I did continue to sing the whole time we were there...). We were staying with a really lovely woman Rosana and her husband and dog! It was slightly difficult to find her house though, as the houses were just randomly numbered, 57, 287, 113... and there didn't seem to exist a number 12! Anyway we found the house even...

Florianopolis was our destination of choice over the Carnaval period, as Rio was going to be far too expensive for us even to stay there, and also our first destination in Brazil! We arrived in Florianopolis over the massive metal bridge connecting it to the mainland, on an overnight bus, and feeling slightly dazed and confused at the sudden change in language from now-pretty-much-understandable-spanish to basically-incomprehensible-portuguese, we opted for a ta...