Dear all, In paraty now ! the hotel is really nice again , it even has a mini pool/jacuzzi in the middle and then the rooms are around the outside, it also has ski so have managed to catch an old episode of the oc ! We went to a thai/brazilan restaurant last night , it was absolutely amazing the best thai food i have ever tasted! We then went on to samba dancing , it ended up being the best night ever ! There were two bands playing ( at different times obvio...

Hey everyone,think this is working to some extent now !right so left rio on the 1st - while we were there i basically spent the day on cococabana beach as it was to cloudy to go up sugar loaf mountain in the cable car as you couldnt see anything !so when we left there we went to a little island called ilha grande (the big island ) near rio, this place is so chilled out , but we decided to be energetic and take the three hour hike up over the mountian to the other...