Hi again, Well I survived carnival!!!!The party for carnival started at 9pm and we arrived home at around 7am, in time for breakfast and then sleep.The party was something else.The samba schools took approximately one hour and 20 minutes to make the journey for the length of the sambadrome.It actually took them about 40 minutes to reach us at the end and then another forty minutes of having everyone go past.Every school had a theme with the wildlife and endager...

Hi again, Well I survived carnival!!!!The party for carnival started at 9pm and we arrived home at around 7am, in time for breakfast and then sleep.The party was something else.The samba schools took approximately one hour and 20 minutes to make the journey for the length of the sambadrome.It actually took them about 40 minutes to reach us at the end and then another forty minutes of having everyone go past.Every school had a theme with the wildlife and endager...

Hi again, Well I survived carnival!!!!The party for carnival started at 9pm and we arrived home at around 7am, in time for breakfast and then sleep.The party was something else.The samba schools took approximately one hour and 20 minutes to make the journey for the length of the sambadrome.It actually took them about 40 minutes to reach us at the end and then another forty minutes of having everyone go past.Every school had a theme with the wildlife and endager...

Ola, Well have now arrived in Rio and am enjoying the feel of warmth and humidity in the air.Have been taking things here pretty easy at the moment as I will be back here in July. Our first experience in Rio was on the freeway from the airport to the hotel.The traffic was pretty bad and we were thinking it must be peak hour traffic, however we then saw guys standing in the middle of the road selling packs of chips/crisps and two minute noodles to passing mot...