10th June Our 3rd day on the boat. It is really hot. Our journey has taken us down the Amazon river. Indigenous people live on the embankments in little wooden huts on stilts. Children approach our boat on rowing boats. Some people from our boat throw them food. This is common along the river. One boy held onto our boat as it passed. Surfing on his stomach. Stevie has been reading and sleeping after spending to long on the top deck, exhausted from the heat. I'...

9th June Could hardly sleep in the hammock last night. Stevie was 'soundo' all curled up in a ball in the middle. she can sleep anywhere. After a while i managed to get a few hours sleep. Relaxing with morning glory when out of nowhere Paulo comes over and is ushering me with such enthusiasm to follow him. I'm stuck! Morning glory in one hand and an enthused Argentine in the other. I hesitate, I freeze, I panic! I look at Stevie for reassurance! I duck and cover...

8th June Check out was 11.00am from Hotel Amazonia so we decided to lay in as long as possible before washing and repacking our bags to suit our boat trip. We both are dreading 5 days in a boat up the amazon. Bags packed and time to kill we paid the hostel to look after our bags until we left for the port and headed into town. This time the main town was busier than yesterday. We visited an old fort, a decommissioned military boat (the whole tour was in Portugue...

The airport was a nightmare. We had to wait around for 9 hours for our flight. Dawning on us that we had should have booked our hostel in advance. After a 2.30hr flight we landed in Belém. We asked a taxi booth to take use to a hostel that would be open. We ended up in Hotel Amazonia, our first dorm! It's was only a four bed. Not that it mattered. We havn't met any backpackers yet. Not that we are not trying, there are no backpackers around. After a sticky ...

Last night we fancied a curry so we ventured to Cozinha Aberta just off the main square. it was expensive but it was my Birthday after all and their curries where known around town. They didn't disappoint. So we didn't spend more then we had on us we worked out the bill several times before ordering, but when we came to pay it was more than we expected!! Panic!! I got Stevie to wait (counting the 10 cents) while I went back to the Pousada (hostel) for more money...