Everest Rio Rio de Janeiro

... wear speedos on the beaches so Rachel somehow convinced me to be like the locals. Of course, there was an alterior motive and having a good laugh at my expense was the main objective, of course. Anyways, I rocked it and unlike most other cultural experiences did not enjoy it other than seeing the pics after the fact and laughing at myself thinking I look ridiculous with my blindingly white legs and streaky red chest due to the second degree burns I received during my tanning ...

... dry bread and fruit juice coloured water, and went to our 3rd hostel in a bout 12 hours, Ipanema Beach Hostel. The bloke that wrote the hostel reviews in the Rough Guide must have been sleeping with the people that owned the first 2 we stayed in as they had a good write up and didn´t say much at all about this one. It was brilliant, good atmosphere, bar, swimming pool etc and had a big plaque on the wall that said it ...

... the game being a bit rubbish (Fluminense are currently ´doing a Leeds´ for anyone interested in football) but the experience and atmosphere were both great.
Off to Ilha Grande early (5 a.m.!!) tomorrow morning for some jungle hiking and more frolicking in the sea. Looking forward to staying somewhere a biut more peaceful, but Rio has been excellent. Will let you know how our jungle adventure goes in a few days!

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Portuguese, as i quickly discovered, IS NOT Spanish...it is only now after a week that i can make out what ppl are trying to say to me and i respond by speaking portuñol....(spanish/portuguese)...or what usually ends up being pure spanish but with a wannabe portuguese nasal accent. This happens ALOT as everyone thinks im brazilian and i get randoms walking up to me asking me for directions and my social secuirty number in the ...

... 12 hour” bus trip turned out to be 18 hours, and included no less than three buses and a barge. Our first unheated bus went through the highlands of Peru with a window stuck open all night where the temperature must have been -5 C. It dropped us off at a terminal (also unheated) at 4 am for a 4 hour layover. At this point we both started developing a case of the 'umbles’, consisting of mumbles, stumbles, and grumbles, considered the early stages of ...

... the poshest part of Rio, and were relieved to see our accommodation was based in a decent looking block of flats. The fact there was a prison style fence around the building, and a security guard, and another locked gate to get through before entering the building, seemed pretty normal in this city.

We were renting a couple of rooms in what we believed to be a B&B, which in reality turned out to be us renting the only spare rooms in a ...

... I got there it was a bit early (11:30pm) so I went for a few beers at the café thing next door as there were a few people outside. When I got in the club it was still pretty quiet but it picked up after a while. I got chatting to a Brazilian guy who kinda tagged along all night. Which was cool as he could chat to people for me and speak the lingo lol. The music wasn't the best but at least the drinks weren't ridiculously ...

... makes a decision against them or one of the players misses an sitter, they call him a puta, pretty simple really, it was used a lot in this game, because they messed up so many chances, anyway it was coming to the 90th minute, I thought I would leave early and avoid the crush at the end of the game to get out, only the next day I found out that Flamengo had equalised in the 93rd minute or something!! Yesterday, we went up to the Pao De Azucar, which is the iconic mountain ...

... projeto. O contato com Angola não é muito fácil. Não temos como ligar para o celular do missionário de lá porque fica muito caro. Mas temos orado para que consigamos conversar melhor com ele e termos mais detalhes sobre a cidade e sobre o que iremos fazer lá. A saúde é uma das áreas que requer maior atenção. Sem saúde não se faz missões. Nosso corpo reage a qualquer mudança climática ou de ambiente, por isso precisamos estar atentos a isso. Além disso existem doen ...

... a funny Japanese guy that we did the mine tour with in Potosi, Bolivia.

Or more accurately, she spotted a funny Japanese guy who Katie shared a bus with and who I nearly died next to inside the mines!

He didn't recognise us from Adam but we had a quick chat and found out ...