Really misty in Rio, but we took a trip upto see the Statue of Christ in the smog as part of an organised city tour with a very friendly guide. We could not go up Sugarloaf mountain though as the cable car was closed for maintainance from today (we should have tried yesterday)! We learned more about Rio as a city, the slums, the football passion etc We attempted a swin in the afternoon on Copacabana but it was more of a wave bashing and falling over then a swim ...

Our first day in Brazil was really chilled, we walked the length of Copacabana beach, stopping for a fresh coconut drink along the way and watching loads of people playing vollyball or practacing football on the sand. Matt´s Spanish is great considering he has only been learning for a few weeks but he may have ordered dos Coca instead of dos Coco (which may or may not be hard drugs in Spanish?) but we did end up with a coconut. The afternoon we lay on Ipanima b...