After an extremely long bus journey we have finally landed in Florianopolis - (bit of a gob full!) Also known as Floripa to the locals, which is a handy term for us Spanglish! Really relaxed here. It's where a lot of Brazilians come on holiday. There are loads and loads of long white sandy beaches. A lot of them are virtually deserted despite it being summer holidays for the Brazilians. I think most have now gone back to the cities for carnival. We have seen...

Rio de Janeiro, the marvellous city! Where to start?? Well, we are actually writing this whilst in Buenos Aires as we are very lazy with this blog business, so many things may be missing... The views of the city, whether at dizzy heights or on the ground are certainly everything they are made out to be. We only had time to go up Sugar Loaf mountain (and not to the Christ statue) in the 5 or so days that we were there. It was spectacular, if a little nauseating, ...