Deze morgen aangekomen in Rio na een nachtje in de bus. Stad een beetje verkend maar onze eerste indruk is niet overdonderend en we willen snel weg. Vanavond opnieuw de bus naar Ouro Preto. Daar gaan we de streek van de edelsteenmijnen wat beter verkennen.

I rent a bike at this local bicycle shop and I cruise around Rio for most of the day. I look like the biggest tool on this thing. The seat is super low and because of ingenious Brazilian engineering a method for raising the seat higher does not exist. My knees come up to my ****ing chin and they may have as well just given me a big wheel. The ha...

It's the end of the road for us today! Tonight we jump on a plane bound for beautiful Australia; 2 travel-weary backpackers on the way home. This last week has been a spectacular climax to our 2 months on the road. Rio has been huge fun and carnivale was incredible. But before we talk about that, we need to rewind just a little to fill in the ga...

So, we finally reached Rio, and our tour officially ended on 5th July. However, we all stayed in Rio until the 11th, so it didn´t really feel like the end just yet! The weather was pretty miserable whilst we were there, so we didn´t get to do much sunbathing (although Kerry and I tried our ********** Ipanema beach!). We did head up Cocorvado (hu...

I left Olinda and Recife in the quiet hour before dawn to catch an early morning flight. I gave my well-heeled, middle-aged cabbie a double take when I realized he'd popped in 2 Pac, of all things, but it allowed us an immediate connection that didn't involve language, and it was an eerily apt soundtrack for the drive through abandoned, run-down...