Kurt went back down to reception first thing & spoke with the manager the only option was to move to the back of the hotel which had no view & the rooms were basic! We decided to move hotels I had a look for one nearby & we packed up! The manager gave us a full refund & was very apologetic so we weren’t losing out we picked a bigger hotel near the centre. It was much nicer, it had a lovely bar & restaurant then a pool bar & terrace, we h...

Well no surprise I woke up with a banging headache & felt quite rough, I had been sick when we got back to the hotel & Kurt took great pleasure in reminding me. We missed breakfast & got an Uber to the airport. The journey wasn’t the best it was really busy & I felt worse as the morning went on in fact I don’t know how I made it to the airport in one piece! Kurt felt worse as the day went on & the plane journey wasn’t great we had quite ...

We packed up our backpacks ready for moving onto Salvador tomorrow, I went to the gym which was on the top floor over looking Copacabana & sugarloaf quite a view for a morning work out! We went for a walk up to our favourite beach bar & a bite to eat then we went back to the hotel & up to the roof terrace bar for the England game. It was just a friendly against Costa Rica before the World Cup started, we had a few Caipirinha which have turned into my ...

We booked the city tour online & we got picked up from the hotel at 10am after breakfast thankfully the weather had brightened up, Filippo was our guide he was from Rio but spoke Portuguese Spanish & english easily! The first part of the tour was to visit a popular hang gliding spot near Barra Tijuca this is an up & coming part of Rio where all the new hotels are being built, it has lots of smart exclusive cocktail bars. We passed through the largest ...

The storm had passed it still felt warm but quite cloudy so we decided to go to the Maracana stadium to do the tour, it is one of the most iconic football stadiums in the world! The stadium opened in 1950 to host the FIFA World Cup, in which Brazil was beaten 2–1 by Uruguay in the deciding game, in front of 199,854 spectators. The stadium has seen plenty of crowds of more than 100,000 until the terraced sections have been replaced with seats over time, its orig...