After just 2 and half hours sleep, my friend Mr Gillen decided to wake me up by throwing a full bottle of water on my stomach. I was not impressed. SO Chris and I stumbled too breakfast whilst the refreshed patient bounded his way up. We missed the bus for the 10 o'clock favela tour we rushed about to find a taxi to take us to corcovado (the christ statue). It was amazing, the views were stunning, even if the saweltering heat and bright lights combined in uni...

Not much today at all. Juts sat on beach watching world go by. Talked to a vendor selling t-shirts on beach and tried sell me some `good coca, mmm'. Nothing very exciting at all today, except the gorgeous barbeque whihc cost just 4 pounds for loads of food and a free cocktail. Computers not letting me put photos on, at least only 1 at a time.

WOW. what an awesome day. Went for run this morning and just had a walk about most afternoon. It raining all day. But this evening, wow wow wow. we went to see a football match with Vasco vs Botafogo. We arrived, and first things first, i had to visit the little boys room. Where the use of urinals and toilets was optional. LOOOVVELY. We went through into the stadium which was packed. There are of course no seats just hundreds of concrete steps full of se...

Really good day. We went to Lapa and got on a tram into Santa Tereza. We however stayed on the tram far too long and ended up getting ever closer and passing through loads little areas. So after some jumbled portugese we got off at the right station to then get on another wrong tram to god knows where. We thought we'd do what the locals do so we held on to the side of the tram and brushing against cars and trees. But when we found we had gone wrong way we ke...

Bit of a `boring`day today. After a huge breakfast, earning our money back, we wandered down Copacabana to Ipanema where spent 4 hours laying on the beach in the sun. a tough life but someone has to do it. Met some blokey trying to sell me a football shirt, which was really nice and he was about 19, but then he moved onto trying to sell me weed and some `coca`. Just ate a gorgeous BBQ with awesome meat, and drinking copious amounts of Caipriniha`s which, cost ...