Hello! I hope you are all well? Si I am now in Peru! I managed to get one more day of sunshine in Rio before I left! The clouds shifted so instead of the Botanical Gardens I headed down the beach and spent the day soaking up the sun and watching the world go by. I went and met Annie and Soraya inIpanema in the evening and we went to a night market where they had two big stages with live music and people dancing everywhere! They were so amazing, really enjo...

Since the last update I have become a lone traveller again! The last few days with Rebecca were good though. On Saturday we had one more touristy thing to cross off the list which was the tram ride up through Santa Teresa - and its a good thing that was the only item because it was on everybody elses list too! We cued for 2.5 hours for the tram but there were some lovey people around us and one man saw the state of mine and Rebeccas bites and wrote down a crea...

Hello All! Happy Easter to everyone - hope you all have a lovely long weekend! So we made it to Ipanema! Monday morning we were very organised - I left what my big bag and just took a few things for the 2 days we were away from here, we worked out how to get from A to B and headed off to catch the bus - no problems! However things wouldn't be right if everything went to plan! We soon discovered that we didn't really know where B was! Woops! After a bit of wonder...

Hello all! I made it to Rio on the bus all well and good - although I did get stuck in the gate on the bus with my backpack and some lovely man tried to help and upon lifting my bag stated - óh - thats heavy!`that was my hand luggage!! Arrived in Rio and headed to the hostel by cab - its not the best place I´ve been to but its growing on me. Theres a pool but it looks very suspicious so I´m not going in!! I the got directions to the airport to meet Rebecc...

Ola!! I hope you are all well? So I made it Ilhabela alright - got the bus from Sao Paulo and 4 hours later was on aferry across to a beautiful island. I got chatting to guy on the ferry who´s english was very good and he sorted out a taxi to get me to my hostel. The hostel is lovely - really well put together - however - I am the only one there! Because the carnival was only a few weeks ago this is a lull. I don´t mind though - its like having my own flat w...