hey well looks like this is the last postcard as we'll be back in good old durham next week. everyone had better be out and ready to party on friday night - no excuses! Left Salvador after a week of street partying, one too many caiphrianas, capoeira and portuguese lessons! Which have by the way done little to help understand the locals, who choose to ignore the phrase i dont understand and blab on in portuguese for about half an hour regardless! As u...

hey have finally left rio after spending about 2 weeks there, during which my sis was lucky enough to have the pleasure of joining us! a real treat! we partyed the nights away on the streets of Lapa, some crazy hip hop club, a school disco style warehouse and even in the favela! the favela funk party was certainly an experience i will not be forgetting in a hurry. The whole place was rammed with scantily clad girls in the tackiest ensembles imaginable...

hey kids weve now been in rio a few days and are absolutely loving it. went up to sugar loaf mountain today for sunset which was gorgeous! we are also of course loving the new found sun and being back on the beaches where we have finally witnessed some fitness! its taken 7 months!but hey were not complaining! Have spent the past few days on ipanema and copacabana beach perving away! loving it! However this does not detract from the vile specimins sport...

Its been a while since the last postcard! anyways to end our stay in New Zealand we teamed up with a new recruit -Elliot and hit the christchurch clubs until the early hours of the morning (mostly karaoke Im afraid) so as not to have to pay to stay another night in a hostel-luckily by the time we collected our bags and got busted (around 5am) it was too late for the hostel staff to do anything-result! So, after no sleep and 2 more flights (after a quick sto...