Hey Guys!! Just a quick one to update you all on our mammoth trip to Sao Paulo! Writing this blog in the luxury of the hotel lobby, how very posh! Anyway to fill you in on last night, we walked down with a few others from the hostel to the Historical Centre and could here the smooth jazz music playing. There were lots of stalls selling food and drink and people dancing around the square, it was really nice and not too crowded. (We were scared about getting pic...

Hey Hey!!Yesterday (by T)So to update you on our trip to Paraty!!! We left the hostel in Ilha Grande, fairly sad to leave to be honest, there isn't anywhere i've been like it and would definatley recommend this island to anyone going to Brazil..Paradise....Anywho, we got the ferry after lugging our bags across the beach which in fact weigh about 2 and half stone!! Bloody heavy in the sweltering heat! At Angra dos Reis we waited before catching the bus to Paraty w...

Hey Biff fans! Sorry havent updated (no still no apostrophe key!) for a while, been very busy on our own paradise island! So here goes... DAY 1 (Monday 24th May) Left our hostel in Rio (after a nice last meal and Tiff getting yet another invitation to go and see the sea with some old guy) and got a taxi to Rio bus station, to get the bus to Angra dos Reis. This took about three hours (Tiff slept most of the way as per) and was quite a pleasant journey - large...

Hey there lovers and friends! Its Tiff here! To carry on from yesterday, as planned we had a few drinks in the hostel bar and then went with everyone into Lapa, we were meant to be going to a Brazillian Carnival night but when we arrived the queue was far too big and to be honest it looked very scary and some cheesy funk music playing inside. We had lost a few people from the hostel so it ended up being me, Beth and Alex (A Portuguese businessman?) Jamie (From L...

Hello Blog Fans! B here! Bitten and peeling! So lets start with yesterday! Had a small breakfast at the hostel, fruit, weird toast that sort of thing, and then got the subway (which is not very extensive) as close as possible to Christ Redeemer and walked up a long road (again bags held very tightly!) to the cog train station. Disappoinment No 1 - Cog train wasnt working because of the mudslides a few weeks back. This meant that we had to pay about twenty quid ...