Hi all, Quick story about Rio De Janeiro before we forget. Never mind Christ the Redeemer we came close to Madonna! As mentioned the weather in Rio was a bit foggy and we saw little of the Christ so as we were all a bit fed up our tour guide for the day took us to an alternative spot that looked out over Rio. It also happened to overlook a Favella and something exciting looked to be going on there. The road leading to it had been blocked off with security ...

Hey, Tried to upload more photos but the internet connection here isn't the best so will need to bombard you next week (when we reach Buenos Aires) with lots of photo albums from Brazil. Unfortunately the weather has been against us!!! Keeps raining - argh! Brazil is experiencing some sort of freak weather - typical. You will see from the photos (when I manage to get them on this site) that the fog was pretty bad in Rio and we didn't see much from Christ t...

Hey, Bit of a false alarm really - just checking I can get this to work as a couple of people mentioned not being able to access the site using the link so just wondering if the e-mail notification works. Also teaching Mammy Hodge how to use her e-mail/internet (interesting!). Fly to Rio on Sunday so stay tuned for more exciting updates. On the third re-pack of the backpack and I have managed to get it weighing 17.9kg. Only got about one pair of shorts, a ho...