Rio part 1- Football, thongs and food by the kilo August 17th 2007 Touching down in Rio made me realise three things:
1. We are so over long bus journeys (our trip to Rio being our last and longest at 23 mind numbing hours)
2. We only had 2 weeks until we headed home......and
3. I am officially an old fart
The first two speak for themselves.... but let me explain the third.
When trying to book a hostel in Rio we had discovered th ... read more
South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Copacabana Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of t... ... read more
Remember folks 'Regret what you do, not what you don't' and with that thought we welcome you to our round the world travel blog.
As our journey is now over we hope that some of our stories and adventures may help or inspire anybody else who is lucky enough to be currently in any of the locations we visited or planning to travel in the near future.
Do we regret our trip ? .......... absolutely not it was the best year of both our lives and even though we are now back home and things have already started to fall back into exactly the same places they were before we left...... we will alway... full info