It's been a while, so apologies. After my last post we spent our final night in Rio. Had a fairly quiet one, pizza and a couple of beers then an early night (after Billy and I watched Failure to Launch in the hotel - a truly shocking film). The next day was an early ish start, we were on the road at 9, heading south from Rio along the Costa Verde, to a town called Paraty, along with seemingly the rest of the Brazilian population since the traffic was pretty much at a standstill. Paraty is a very pretty town, quite European in its appearance, and this weekend there was a festival on (think it may have been something to do with independence, but independence from whom I'm not sure), so the place was packed with
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