Today, I went to the other popular viewpoint in Rio......Pao du Açucar, or Sugar loaf Mountian in English, which was equally as amazing as the Christ statue. The cablecar ride was fun and the views were spectacular. Somehow it reminded of a Simpsons episode. Anywho, the landscape views from here were different to the ones seen from the Christ s...

WE woke up early and crossed the boarder into brazil. Our plane arrived in rio de janeiro about noon. Bruno was at the airport to pick us up. He gave us a tour of the beaches of rio de janeiro. Sorry to dissapoint you but there were no monkeys, snakes, parrots, or wild jungle people. It was just a normal city. Looked like miami except everyone s...

Our last day in Rio ...... we checked out the hostel, leaving our backpacks there. We took a small backpack and headed for Ipanema beach. From Copacabana, Ipanema is about a 20 minute walk. We ambled along the famous Copacabana wavy paving and then came around the coastal point onto Ipanema. Ipanema is a long beach protected by a large mountain ...

Hello everybody! We are still in Rio and we are both doing well. Since our last post we have been doing our utmost to see everything there is to be seen here. The end result has been seeing the glorious public transport system in quite some detail, we have made our way via precarious cable cars, cog-trains in which you could roast chickens, mini...

There is probably never a time when a new experience is unwelcome ... by this I mean a time of life. Here in Rio at this late stage in my life I am having incredible experiences .. an insight into a totally different world, one which I would like to convey to readers, but lack the language skills to describe in total what it is like here. The ci...