Sorry - same pic -just a quick note to let you know that i returned from the jungle....what an experience on many levels!! the jungle itself is breathtaking. It is not like walking through a set of a david attenborough programme, but it is lush (at last I use that word in its correct context!) and the birds are lovely. It would seem however that I have lost none of my insatiable attraction to the two commen pests of south america - mosquitos (i am sporting 23 bit...

Well, I am now in the Amazon, still in Brazil and its hot and very sweaty. I am hoping to set off to do a trek which will no doubt bear many stories expecially since at the moment it is just me and the guide!!! AAgh! The flight in was amazing - a great view of the river and the jungle. My room is very like a cell at durham nick but has clean sheets.....and no 20stone dyke looking at me longingly, but apart from that..... will let you know how i get on!