so before the craziness of carnaval kicks off thought we should write our first blog, having finally sorted it out!! you must excuse the english its been going downhill ever since we left heathrow, our first slight crisis may have been the crash in heathrow which added a further 3 hours on to our already 12 hour flight, with the pilot reassuring us all not to be alarmed but the wheel carriage of a BA flight had packed up..good good.. 15 hours later we arrived in sao paulo airport ready to get the shuttle bus to our hotel, 3 miles away..no no it was a 50 minute taxi ride away and cost us R$ 102 (about 30 pounds)..seems fairly reasonably but when you've been on a plane for 15 hours and arrive in a south american
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