Hi Everyone Bet you thought you'd got rid of us eh? Well, no such luck, we've just been having far too good a time in Buenos Aires to bother with Internet cafes. (Interesting internet point: there are a very low number of home internet connections in South America, and most people have to go to public places to use the net, hence there are internet cafes everywhere). So, after a cultural explosion (well two days of culture constitutes an explosion in our book) we chilled out for the rest of our time in Argentina's capital. We spent a few days shopping [View Full Entry]

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Has anyone seen a short fat Argentinian recently? No, well we have. Went to watch Boca Juniors on Sunday and who should be there but El Diego himself, Diego Maradona. But I'll come back to that in a minute. Friday night's trip to a nightclub was interesting, to say the least. All of Buenos Aires nightclubs have been closed for about a month since a big fire in one of the clubs. Since then they've all been having to meet health and safety regulations and in true Latin American style have taken a while. Anyway, Friday night we went to one [View Full Entry]

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Crikey, how are you all? It's been a while since we last spoke. What's new with you? Am writing this update in a cybercafe in Buenos Aires, after an 18 hour bus ride from Foz do Iguaçu. Before carrying on, let me jump back a few days to the last time we spoke. Santa Catarina was pretty cool, and we stayed there for about 4 days. The one downside was that there really wasn't a lot to do apart from lounge about on the beach and top up our tans (bummer). We did make it out one night, despite a power [View Full Entry]

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NEWS FLASH....We´ve worked out how to get piccies onto the site (well Andy´s anyway) so check out the pictures and how happy we look. Just to make you all that little bit more jealous. Anyway, we celebrated Jamie´s birthday on Monday with a romantic little cruise around Ilha Grande. Just the 4 of us, plus about 50 others... After the excitement of getting a cake from the Swedes and a beach tennis set from the boys Jamie´s day got off to a great start. The beautiful scenery and great weather on the cruise ensured things carried on this way. Having had [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone The lack of an update the last few days proves how much there was to tell you all about Rio and how we were short of news since we did all the main touristy things. This is a bit of a long one though... Anyway, after the excitement of Monday´s trip to Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf we spent the rest of our time in Rio chilling out. Tuesday was a day for completing two missions. The first was to get our clothes washed, the second was to sort out accommodation between Thursday and going to Ilha Grande [View Full Entry]

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Afternoon everyone - how is everything with you? We seem to spend so much time talking about ourselves, what´s going on in your lives? Hmmm....sounds interesting. Anyway.... Photos will hopefully be making their way onto this site at some point, as prompted by Andy´s Dad. However, I´m afraid he and the rest of you will need to wait until we find an internet cafe that lets us do that and work out how we post the pics. Rest assured there are some good ones. In fact, all of our cameras have taken a real hammering since you last heard from us. [View Full Entry]

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Evening all, 9pm Sunday evening here and a lots happened since we mailed you last. Before getting into it, a quick bit of admin. If any of you don´t want to receive these regular updates feel free to unsubscribe yourself. We won´t be upset I promise!! Anyway, rest assured things will be a bit quieter for a while once we leave Rio on Thursday. Anyway, Friday night was something of a write off after Thursday night´s shenanigans so nothing much to report. We woke up on Saturday really excited about the trip to the Maracana stadium to see the Rio derby [View Full Entry]

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Evening all Friday night and I imagine a lot of you are getting ready for a night out. Well we´re getting over a big one last night so have had a very quiet day. We left you all on Wednesday, having spent the afternoon on Copacabana beach. Well Wednesday night was relatively tame by standards so far and we just had a few beers at a hostel around the corner. One amusing event was quite possibly the most drunk woman ever who had a fit at being denied more booze and then promptly tripped over a pot plant and fell down [View Full Entry]

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For those of you expecting every entry in this journal to be tales of drunken escapades I´m afraid we´re going to have to disappoint because we´ve actually being doing other things over the last few days. Admittedly most do involve alcohol! So, where did we leave you? The heat of Rio on Sunday and plans for a tourist adventure on Monday... We had a bit of a wander on Sunday night along Copacabana beach and then decided to grab a bite to eat. The way the restaurants work over here is very different, it just involves massive amounts of food (meaning [View Full Entry]

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Sitting in a hostel in Rio typing this, marvelling at the extreme weather change between NY and Rio. Since we caught up with you all last we bummed around NY for a few more days, and killed time yesterday (Sat) going to watch Meet The Fockers in a cinema which seemed to have a fairly easy going attitude to admitting homeless bums and total weirdos. Film was pretty amusing but were put off slightly by the strange American going "Oh Boy..." everytime something embarassing was going to happen. Got to JFK airport well in time for our 10:30pm flight thanks to [View Full Entry]

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