After deciding to leave the exciting town they call Sao Paulo, we jumped on a bus to Rio (abit like the national express). No more than 20 mins into our 6 hour, turned out to be 7 hour journey, the bus got stopped by the police. Safe to say we were pooin ourselves for a few minutes when they started talking a lot of Portugese but then they handed out some safety leaflets to everyone and we were on our way. We found ourselves a little hostel which is at the top ...

Hi everyone, 1st blog entry and its going to be a boring one as that is the only word to describe Sao Paulo! We were supposed to be staying for two nights in our hotel but after seeing what there was to do there ie. nothing, we decided to leave. We did however find some melon that smelt and tasted of cheese (smelt weirdly like Rachael Dormers feet! ha only kidding Rach) but not nice first thing in the morning, and we had pizza where you had to use a glove (!) to ...