So, I'm back home now, almost a week to the day we said farewell to Rio & the continent of South America.  I still haven't unpacked & I've been stalling writing this as it really means that this is the end of almost 4 months of travelling.  Well here's the last entry, I hope you've enjoyed reading our adventures, just as much as we've enjoyed experiencing them? 9th August 2007 - Our last day! I got up early today in prepa...

Its nearly time to leave & I´ve still got stuff I want to do but haven´t gotten round to it today....ahhhhh!Still have sugar loaf to do, which will hopefully be today (depending on whether I actually get to go hang gliding today) or if not before we leave tomorrow. Talking of hang gliding i spent 4 hours up a mountain waiting to jump, all harnessed up, adrenaline pumping & it never happened due to the wrong kind of wind?!!!! So I´m hopin...

Well, we have two days left & I don't want to go home!!!!!! The weathers been a bit dodgy for the past few days, so not much going on with us. Sunday we went to the hippy market in the morning & bought some last minute souvienrs, then later on we went to the macarana stadium to see a rio team against a sao paulo one. We were in the block for Rio, but as it turns out they were pretty bad & we secretly supported the other one all the way through, ...

Revenge is sweet, so says helen...yes it was my turn to carry on the drunkness last night. We met up with the BBQ guys again & broke every lonely planet rule & went to another favella party, this time though this one was not a tourist show but the real deal! I won't go into details as we're now sure that the CIA or FBI were there undercover & that our movements today have been tracked (lol!)...better to explain in detail, in person! Felt pretty h...

Morning all! Well where do I begin to fill you in on the events of yesterday & last night, lol? So we got up late (correction, helen got up late!) & we thought we'd better leave sugar-loaf for another day (meant to be today but guess who's still not awake lol!). We caught up with internet stuff & phone calls back home, then wandered the length of Impanema's main shopping street. We were just browsing in ANOTHER jewellery store when this woman fro...