Hello everyone!!! I hope you are all well and had a delightful Christmas :) Amiee and I spent Xmas eve at the Rio de Janeiro airport and then Xmas day flying to Ecuador.... to be entirely honest, departing Brazil was the best Xmas gift I could have hoped for! We are LOVING Ecuador so far... the climate is defintely a massive change after the heat and humidity of Brazil which I was loving.. but I wont lie, its rather pleasant to be able to wear my hair out and ...

Hey all :D Long time no updates, I know... but there is so little to tell since leaving Rio as we have literally spent the past week lounging in the sunshine.. and inside, recovering from Day 1's nasty sunburn! Before you say it - YES we were wearing sunscreen... Myself, a mild SPF55 and Amiee SPF70!!! Amiee even re-applied approx 3 times whilst at the beach.... the sun is fierce! So we have just relaxed really which believe me, after constantly being 'on-alert...

Olá everyone! So we are in Rio.... I am slowly getting over my initial freak out about being mugged... defintely didnt help when our taxi driver from the bus station didnt know where we had to go and ditched us on the side of the street because he didnt realise that the street continued after a small corner.. grrrr... i wanted to scream at him but thought it wasnt a good idea to draw even more attention to ourselves than our giant packs already did! The weat...

hi-de-hi :) hurrraaaah! so obviously we survived the bus trip... no exageration.. it was a mission! all up, 5 buses! and some seriously crazy brazilians... our trip from Foz do Iguaçu was.. well indescribable really! we were a bit of a novelty and had lots of people talking to us - in Portuguese!! which obviously goes well over our heads when it is being flung at us a million miles an hour! the best part is that when you say you dont understand, they just repe...

Saludos a todos!! So we are in the bus station in Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil awaiting bus #3 of the day! No, I tell a grand lie, #4! So far, so good... although this morning leaving the hostel and trying to pay, I realised I have experienced my first mad tourist swindle when the hostel dude advised me that my 100 peso bill was fake - and a freaken blatant fake at that ie. drawn on with a silver pen! so that was a pricey and time consuming little exercise when we ...