So, my last blog (post 4 via Blogspot) ended with my arrival in Rio .. and this is now post 5 (woefully late to complete I admit, it now being February!) using TravelBlog for the first time (I get to add route maps ..!), to take you through a month in Brazil, and the festive season in Uruguay.. Arriving in Rio on November 24 marked the end of a pretty much non-stop first leg of my year away, and some eight weeks of being continually on the road in one form or another.. this together with dealing with all the trials and tribulations of group travel in both Ecuador and with the Intrepid trip across Bolivia and Brazil, has the inevitable result - I need some serious 'chill' time..! Being in Rio, and gravitating to the
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