It has been a very exciting weekend here in Rio de Janeiro! Yesterday (Saturday) we did the sightseeing tour, and it was absolutely fantastic. We'd decided to take a guided tour for reasons of safety (and maybe a little bit of laziness) and it was really worth the money. We had an excellent guide called Vao who did the tour in both English and Spanish, so best of both worlds for me! He took us to the Cathedral, the big football stadium and the Sambodrome, as ...

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...