Blogs from Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America - page 10

Well, this first update is long overdue. With that in mind, I may take a bit of a different direction with this blog. But for now, let's see how it works out... The 19 hour journey to Rio through Chicago and Sao Paolo was a bit of a trek. I didn't manage to sleep a whole lot as I rarely do on flights, so I was pretty tired when I arrived. I was sad to see the weather was partly cloudy when I checked into my hostel, but that didn´t stop me from walking a few blocks to Leblon beach and enjoying the sound of the waves. Due to my jet lag and travel exhaustion, I went to bed pretty early. I was excited for the day to follow as I planned to meet my friend ... read more

Rio I made a major blunder in my planning, only allowing two full days in Rio. I had a couple of strolls along Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, watched the surfers at Arpiador and had a swim in the warm water of Ipanema in between visits to the statue of Christ the Redeemer on Corcovado and the favelas of xxx. Even so, I loved Rio and would have liked to spend a lot more time there. The beaches are quite special, and are right in the heart of the city, the headland of Axxx creates some impressive waves and the surfers were able to do some pretty cool stuff. The people are not quite as beautiful as the PR would have us believe, and a lot of the bodies on display are a bit on the chunky ... read more

Hi friends, Family and Bloggers, Today we had a long day a head of us travelling to JFK via Sao Paulo. It wasn’t a massive rush in the morning, so we packed up our things, Neil made us scrambled eggs for breakfast, and we eventually checked out around 11.30am. We headed to the bus station where we caught the 2018 bus to the international airport. I went with Jess and James two days ago when they left to make sure we got the correct station and to see how much cash we would need to keep aside for it. It was therefore easy for catching the bus and getting to the airport. We arrived 2 hours before our flight and checked in. The airport is tiny-so we couldn’t get our expensive tester creams and perfume fix. ... read more

Bonjour People, We feel we have seen the main attractions in Rio now, so we are generally just chilling for the next 5 days before we start on the next big trip around the USA. So today we had another relaxing morning at the hostel. I started putting some notes together for my interview, we casually looked at houses for sale in Southampton, Neil’s been in contact with people from work too and we watched a few Grimm episodes throughout the morning too. We had that amazing salad for lunch again too. About 3pm we decided to walk to the Copacabana shopping streets but we got a bit lost because there are huge hills dotted over the city, which limits your access around streets. So whilst trying to walk around this one hill we ended up ... read more

Hi Followers, So our first day in Rio, we started by looking at all the tours available, and whether it would be cheaper to do them on our own or on a tour. We worked out there was not much in it and the tour would explain everything and have the added history so we decided on the full day tour including Sugar loaf and Chris the redeemer with a few other things included. We booked it for a few days time. We walked to Botafogo beach today, which was a 5min walk, it was nice but the water was dirty as the yacht club was there so they had emptied out the bilges and all the engine oil so we decided to walk to Copacabana. We walked through the traffic tunnels to get to Copacabana ... read more