Dzisiaj rano wrocilismy do Angra do Reis promem a stamtad autobusem do Rio i dalej do Penedo. Myslelismy ze prom mamy o 8 rano a okazalo sie ze byl 9.30. Przez to nie zdarzylismy zjesc nawet sniadania w hotelu. Rano w recepcki nikogo nie bylo wiec musielismy czekac na recepcjonistke, bo dziadek ktory tam akurat byl nie wiedzial jak obslugiwac ur...

AUMENTANDO A FÉ CONSEQÜENTEMENTE, A FÉ VEM POR SE OUVIR A MENSAGEM, E A MENSAGEM É OUVIDA MEDIANTE A PALAVRA DE CRISTO. Romanos 10.17 A maioria das pessoas gostaria de aumentar a sua fé. Normalmente, acreditamos que se virmos algum milagre ou algum prodígio extraordinário teremos mais fé. Será que é verdade? É interessante observar que muitos is...

We moved to the hostel that we had booked about 6 months ago (there´s also very few places to stay during Carnaval and you have to book very far in advance to get a decent price). We´re about 45 minutes out of downtown, near some amazing surfing beaches and in a safe neighbourhood (the Green Surf Hostel). The hostel owners, Flav and Fernanda, ar...

It is another rainy day in Rio. We went to the central post office today to collect my parcel from Mum, so we now have a debit card again - hooray! We had a good look around central (downtown) but didn´t take any photos as it was too wet to get the cameras out! We then headed up on the old tram to Santa Teresa. This area is supposed to be where ...

It was a busy day yesterday trying to fit everything into our last day in Ouro Preto, including getting safe accommodation booked for Rio. It turns out that Ricardo's (the owner of Pousda Chico Rey) friend edwardo (?maybe his name) lives in Rio, in the same region that our selected hotel is in, Ipadema. Edwardo had been staying at the pousada fo...

I´ll keep this one short and less boring because we only returned to rio for 2 or 3 days while we were waiting to move onto our next stop Igazu falls. We arrived on the friday night, dropped our bags and headed straight for a drink with the 3 cork boys we met on the way back from ilha grande... It was friday night and so inevitable that we head ...

As we left Parati for Rio it was a day of 'lasts' - the last time we had to take down our lovely tent, Santa's Sac, the last time we had to flap dry our dishes (hooray, bring on the tea towels!) and saddest of all, the last time we would travel on the wonderful yellow truck that is Moose. After 23,000km onboard it was hard not to be sad to say g...

One of the most famous mountains, Sugarloaf Mountain ("Pão de Açúcar" in its original Portuguese) is among the most photogenic sights in Rio de Janeiro. Viewing the city from its peak, it is undoubted why Rio is said to be the one of the most beautiful cities in the world. On Saturday, we spent the whole day only sightseeing two of the most famo...

Rio.... we arrived in rio to find ourselves some classy accommodation, $10s a night including cockroaches, mosquitos and a camp plosh guy called pavel. On a good note it was on copacobana beach. It 'kicked off' to a good one as within an hour of getting to our hostel we managed to go and watch a brazilian cup semi final at the 128,000 maracana s...

I am developing a philosophy for my travels (aside from kissing my way around the world) and that is to pick two things in each place that I want to see and spend the rest of the time hanging out. So far it is working well. Cabo Frio and Buzíos I signed up for a tour to the north of Rio where all the cariocas (Rio citizens) go for the weekend. T...