My last whole day in Rio and I am ready for my next adventure. Rio de Janeiro has been great but to be honest 1 week here would have been plenty of time as I have found the last week I have just been twiddling my thumbs and doing the same thing over and over - head to beach in morning, work-out middle of day, back to apartment for lunch, afternoon walk, yoga, cook dinner for my friends and surf the Internet with no real purpose. Basically all the things, routines...

Another year older! Haha what does that mean?? I have decided that instead of getting older I am going to get younger (something travel allows me to do) so instead of going to 29 I am going back to 27. I started the day again very early 2:40am with a big bowl of Acai blended with banana, and mixed with dried fruits/nuts, granola and honey - and Yes it is even better then it sounds; to say I am addicted to this delicious sweet smoothie is an understatement but I f...

Happy Birthday to me :) Unfortunately I didn't sleep so well again lastnight and ended up having breakfast at 2:45am as I couldn't sleep. When I got up the second time I was wished Happy Birthday by Leo and then we headed down to the farmers market - which is held infront of Leo's apartment every Wednesday. Leo had been telling me about this delicious pumpkin and coconut slice a man at the fair makes - so he brought some of that and some very typical cane sugar ...

I woke up to the most amazing news this morning: My sister has gave birth to Jay Anthony Milne (20th May) a beautiful little boy, making me an uncle a day before my birthday. It's obviously hard not being home for this important day but I know no matter what this little boy is going to be inundated with love and affection and one day when he's a bit older he will meet his uncle. The cleaning lady came early this morning so I decided to get my things together and ...

Back in Rio and back to having trouble sleeping!?? How strange that in all the big cities I have trouble sleeping and constantly waking up throughout the night. Today I really wanted to sort out a plan for heading North through Brazil as it has become quite apparent that I will have trouble finding hosts in the cities in the North as World Cup approaches and begins on June 12th. The weather wasn't looking so nice today but I headed to the beach anyway in the hope...