Started the trip as we mean to go on and got invited to a party in Rio before we even got off the plane. Pretty sure overfriendly Pau was watching us sleep. Arrived in Rio to an amazing sunset and found our transfer to El Misti Copacabana. Dumped our stuff and headed straight to a bar on the beach where we definitely got drunk off two caipirihnas, must have been the heat.. or the beautiful man playing guitar at the bar. Soaked up the alcohol with lush seafood sal...

Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge (and a bit of Mountain Rescue) In a moment of insanity we decided we needed a hiking challenge in preparation for our 5 day trek to Machu Picchu planned in June. We climbed the three Yorkshire peaks, Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, in under 12 hours! (But only successfully made it down from two..) Halfway up the second peak we realised this was not practise for Machu Picchu; this was a marathon with three mountains to c...