Hello! So today we decided to travel up the big cable cars to visit Sugar Loaf mountain. This is done in two stages and boasts terrific views over Rio. In order to get to the cable car starting point, we walked from our hotel down through Botafogo and along past the university buildings. The walk took us about 25/30minutes which wasn't bad but it was hot. Rio is definitely hotter than when we were at São Paulo. We located the cable car (station?) and bought ti...

Hello once again! It's been a few days since we've been able to sit down properly and give an update. Last Friday afternoon, we were collected from our posh pousada and driven back to São Paulo. This particular journey really was unlike anything else we've experienced. The mountains really were spectacular with winding roads going through the mountains or round them; the drops on either side at times were quite scary! Most of the return journey was done in th...

Hello one and all. This is Sam taking over the blog duties; I was promised one entry for good behaviour over the course of the trip! If you find this one a bit of a snoozathon, don't worry- Donna will be back for the next one. So the latest stage of our epic Brazil encounter has seen us having a proper beach holiday! We were driven on Saturday to Juquehy, a beachside community about two and a half hours from the house in São Paulo where we have been staying. Th...

Hi all, Finally got some time to sit down and update the blog to let you all know where we are at and what has been happening! So I'm going to begin with: Wednesday: on Wednesday morning we found out rather suddenly that we were going to be leaving the farm that afternoon instead of the following day which we had all thought. So at about 3pm we (Sam, Camila, Giulia and myself) set off to Cascavel airport. We were driven their by one of the lead farm workers. T...

Good evening to you all, The sun has set on another beautiful day here at the farm. Yesterday was our first proper day of relaxation since starting our holiday in Brazil. It was nice to take a leisurely pace, read in the hammock and then go for a ride around the farm watching the sunset. This morning we were up at a decent time ready to go and milk and feed the cows. All milking is done by hand here and it was hard work! Still, Sam and I had a good go and were...