I have been in San Francisco for 2 days now and i love it! The weathers a bit unpredictable though, was really sunny but incredibly windy today so quite misleadingly cold!!! My flight was a bit shorter at 10 hrs instead of 11. Us immigration grilled me, i swear they asked everything bar my shoe size and i was really dozy too! Took the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Train to Mongomery which took about half hour and walked up Montgomery and Columbus Streets...

The weathers so much more agreeable here, it’s not nearly as hot and humid and I think I can cope! Belo Horizonte is a big big city in Minas Gerais with lots of high rise buildings and flats surrounded by mountains of the old brasilian gold rush. Staying with Tiago's family, it's so cool to have a washing machine and food on the table! Belo is so beautiful at sunset (ill never be awake to see it at dawn who am I kidding!!) it was engineered so you n...

Quick update on Rio - Flew into Galeo airport from Maceio, took 2 and half hours, after which we got the bus to Copacobana district where we are staying. The bus ride was so bumpy and I'd only had about 2 hours sleep all night so I felt like I was going to kill someone, persevered for a little while though, had breakfast, went to internet cafe, got locked out for an hour and finally went to sleep until about 6.30pm after that we went over to Ipanema area to a...

Just a quick update on best bits of Maceio - Flew here from Salvador the other day with Sam, Gary and Colin. The Flight to Maceio from Salvador is cheap as chips and takes 45 mins however it was very turbulent and all the guys promptly fell asleep and left me to fret over whether the plane was to fall out of the sky! To top this the English spoken by the cabin crew was so bad I couldn’t even get the gist of what they were saying over the...