Hello all! I hope you are doing well and enjoying the snow.......... We have spent the last few days in Paraty, a colonial town a few hundred kilometres down the coast from Rio de Janeiro (took about 5 hours to drive there). We are now with our tour group which consists of Joaquin (our guide), Alice (our friend we met at the airport from near Leicester, she´s now sharing with Caryl & I), Ruud (from The Netherlands), Milla & Lucy (from England) and Juurgen & Maire (from Norway). It´s a really nice little group. Paraty is a lovely place with cobbled streets (really hard to walk on in flip flops, especially when it had been raining, and it did rain, a lot) and small white painted houses with brightly coloured doors. We had a little wander
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