I got up after 11 feeling hungover and wishing I hadn't drunk so many caipirinhas! I moved to a different dorm as I was still not happy with the Israeli guy as he never even apologised. The Canadian girls partied hard last night too and were all hungover. So we all walked down to the beach with whinging Christian. Thankfully he left after we refused to go to the beach with him. We walked along the Copacabana beach but the weather took a turn for the worse a...

I got up early and spoke to a German guy called Jacob who is working in the hostel as a barman for a month. He asked if I wanted to go to the beach with him. I happily agreed and we set off for the busy Copacabana beach. We found some trustworthy locals to leave our stuff with such as towels, books, glasses. We then ran into the water diving through huge crashing waves. It was great fun! We then sunbathed on the beach for 2 hours people-watching. Almost all the g...

I woke up around 6.30am just as the bus arrived in Santos. I wandered around the bus terminal looking for a bus company listing Angra Dos Reis as a destination. However none of them had it so I decided to get an express bus to Sau Paulo and then get a bus from there to Angra. My bus drove into the sprawling metropolis of Sau Paulo and I got off at my bus station which I soon realised wasn't Tiete bus terminal but a distant terminal called Jahaquara. I had t...

I woke up as someone starting watching MTV in the bar area. I smeared some grape jam on a roll and drank the free lime juice. I accompanied Katie to the sand dunes and we hired sandboards. It was baking hot by the time we arrived at the dunes. It was really energy-sapping walking up to the top of the sand dunes but was fun sliding down. We were given candle wax which gives your board more speed when you slide downhill. We spent an hour dashing up dunes and ...

We were understandably exhausted but weren't going to let Ivan ruin our day. We walked to a nearby cove to sunbathe but it wasn't what we expected. So we walked along the wide sandy beach and found a secluded part of the beach to chill out. A rabid dog followed us and sat beside us. It was warm and sunny but the water was freezing! We sunbathed for 3 hours and then got a bus to Lagoa. We found a great cafe called Cultura while walking around Lagoa. We had g...