S: after a nice easy quick flight we arrived in Rio, and headed to the area of Lapa. We found a hostel and put our heads down ready for a full 5 days of fun there. We found the national museum and learnt lots about the Portuguese during the invasion and the journey to freedom for the Brazilians. James's foot was playing up, so we headed back to the hostel for some rest. J: the next morning was hot and sunny so we hit Copacabana beach, it's a stunning beach with ...

J: we arrived to Florianopolis at 1am after a 36 hour bus ride which was tedious as it kept stopping so often, I'm sure it was a 3 hour journey of they didn't stop. So we contemplated sleeping in the bus station as we needed a bus in the morning anyway and I hate paying for a room for only a few hours. But Sam didn't like the look of a guy walking about so we went to a hostel for the night. Fully refreshed in the morning we headed to the east side of the island w...

J: We arrive at Bonito and the first thing Sam forces me to do is go to the hospital as my foot was still hurting after a week. I still didn't want to go but she got her stern nurse voice on and threatened to call mum..... Simply put, tiny hospital, one doctor, no English, thank god for google translate & had my first ever IV. Found out that at some point I had broken my bone and now have a lump of bone rubbing against the flesh and caused the big toe joint t...