We are in Sao Paulo today. It is a comfortable 29 - 30 degrees (Celcius) so not too hot and definitely not cold. The rain of the last three days has finally broken. We had a lovely time in Paraty, which is three hours south of Rio on the coast. We caught local bus out to Trindade, which is a bit of a surfers mecca. Nice to go for a swim in the Atlantic and relax on the sandy beach, with Atlantic rain forrest running right down to the sandy beaches. Of course th...

Fab place, but we we got half a days good weather (a nice 32 degrees in the shade), then the RAIN arrive big time! Trindade beaches are great and a walk over the hills to the less visited beaches is worth the effort....or at least until the rain arrived that is! We managed to have a coupe of swims in the rain and did some cycling around Paraty. The place had quite a laid feel to it. It was Anni's birthday here which was lovely. We had a birthday breakfast on t...

Bloody hell, Rio is beyond expectations. The mountains, the beaches, the forests and the beautiful range of people...just fabulous!We arrived in Rio a few days ago (8 December) and jumped on metro and bus to get to Sugar Loaf Mountain. In a word amazing. Rio is huge and set in the most beautiful and natural settings of massive granite faces, thrusting out of land and sea, clothed in greenery and shrouded, many of them, in mantels of mist and cloud. It was 28 ...