PS. I forgot to mention that I haven't quite worked out how I'm going to get my own photos on to this site, so for now you'll just have to make do with the standard ones! I promise you though, it really does look this amazing!

Hello Folks, and welcome to Rio de Janeiro! We arrived here at about lunchtime on wednesday, via a 3 hour delay and a new plane at Heathrow, and a quick stopover in Sao Paulo. Decided to get a taxi into the city cos you do hear some pretty suspect things about buses in this city! Its an amazing drive in from the airport - you go through miles and miles of favelas, houses built higgeldy-piggeldy all over, including rather precariously up steep hillsides. T...