I had been looking forward to getting to Rio. Not so much because of Rio itself, but because I had some visitors coming to see me, my only visitors on the whole trip, namely Pam, Stephen and Phil. They were to stay with me for 8 days, with most of our time spent in Rio and a couple of days in Iguazu at the end. As a result of this, the next 2 or 3 blogs are going to be a little different from what you might have read from me so far. First of all, this was as I called it “my week's holiday in the middle of my holiday”, out with the grotty hostels and chicken buses and in with the 5 stars, taxis and nice restaurants... The other thing is that Stephen also
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