We wake early, have a bit of breakfast and check out as soon as possible knowing we have a wicked hotel on copacobana beach waiting for us. Once we get in the the hotel only has one room ready which is mine and Caz's. She hands over the key and we head up to check it out. It horrid. Low ceilings, two single beds and when I draw back the curtains I'm met with a brick wall about 2 feet in front of the window. There's no natural light what so ever and I instantly go...

You'll noticed I skimmed over the fourth day off carnival. As sad as I am to admit it was where so drained that we didn't really do much, a mooch round Lapa in the day but stayed in during the night. The thought process was to rest and kill it for the final night which we actually managed to do. Waking up fresh on the final carnival day we meet up with the brummies and head to copacobana beach. Fully on it for the final day, the beers start flowing early and part...

I wake up the next day far too early not to have a rotten hangover. Still makeup'd up with glitter everywhere I have a half arsed shower to try wake myself up. I later find out that surprisingly the half arsed shower doesn't get all the make up off, whatever, I feel far too rough to care about things like that right now! We mooch downstairs and with my hangover and Dysons stomach we think about having a slightly more chilled out one. We enquire about sambadrome t...

The second day we wake considerably early considering the night before, about 11 o'clock. The brummies didn't end up getting back till 8 in the morning so we head downstairs and ask the receptionist where a good blocko is. She suggests we go to botofogo which was only a couple of stops south on the metro. The metro is always rammed so now it is just a case of being on there for as short as possible. We get off at botofogo and it doesn't seem that crazy but we fol...

We wake up fresh and early on day one of carnival. The sun is shining and the streets are already alive with the sound of samba and an amazing atmosphere. A quick breakfast and shower and we´re dying to get out and see whats happening. A couple of brummies from Dyson´s area that we met the previous day, Brett, Lance and Saddie, tells us they're off to Ipanema beach for the day so we exchange numbers sort ourselves out and head off there to meet them. It about...