 | Rest of Rio
2004-09-07, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: snutbrown | | I don´t believe it! I´ve just typed this all out and then tried to copy it so that we didn´t lose it if the upload didn´t work properly but I was working on a Mac and they don´t recognise ´control C´ ... |
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 | We arrived!
2004-09-04, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: snutbrown | | So, we finally made it safely to Rio...and it was raining! Not what you expect from South America but it is the end of their winter so we´ll let them off.
The flight over was OK - all on time and a... |
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 | Bem vindo ao Brasil!
2004-07-12, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. By: chefortune | | Since we were so close to the Brazilian border, we decided to hop over for a day trip to visit. Not really knowing what the story was in terms of visas, etc. (U.S. residents, for example, now must pay... |
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 | End of Brazil
2004-07-21, Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil. By: melanie | | Thanks to everyone who's using the message boards (especially for answering the Zoltar question), its good to see you're all interested in the updates.
We're a week into the Dragoman trip now and i... |
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 | My favourites and not so favourites
2004-07-18, Rio, Brazil. By: David2004 | | Okies. After 3 months and 5 countries I have been from the beach to the desert, the jungle, high altitudes, low altitudes and huge metropolises. Ive stayed in 24 hostels and spent the equivalent of 6.... |
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 | I call Chad on Wednesday night
2004-07-18, Rio, Brazil. By: David2004 | | Rockin Rio has turned to Raining Rio. Its our last day in South America and Im completely exhausted. We fly out tomorrow and the last couple of days of rain have made site seeing extremely difficult. ... |
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| Dragoman Tour Begins
2004-07-16, Paraty, Brazil. By: melanie | | Hello all, hope you´re well!
For those that don´t know, we had arranged to go on an overlaod tour for a month, starting from Rio and travelling to Santiago (Chile) via Buenos Airies (Argenina) and ... |
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| Lapping it up in Lapa
2004-07-10, Lapa, Brazil. By: melanie | | Heloo all. To follow on from where i left yesterday, we´d been staying in a cool B&B type place in Santa Tereza (very cool, arty area with lots of hippy types, as well as the neighbouring favelas (sl... |
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| Cable Cars best way to get up sugarloaf...
2004-07-05, Sugrloaf Mountain, Brazil. By: melanie | | Hello all! WE went up Sugarloaf mountain on Monday - when I say we, I really mean Paul went up as I am too scared of heights to get in one of the james-Bond-esque cable cars...pathetic I know, but you... |
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| Not much, if any...
2004-07-09, Florianopolis, Brazil. By: David2004 | | We eventually took a day to the Argentinian side of the Falls, met back up with Steve who had been staying with a friend of ours over the border. Had a massive night, ate some more steak and reeled of... |
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 | Catching up
2004-07-03, Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil. By: celia2004 | | okay wow, an update. You all get an update because i love and miss you, no really its because im logged into radio one, have found muses live set from glastonbury and dont want to move :-)
its festiv... |
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 | Jeez its a bit chilly
2004-07-03, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. By: David2004 | | Howdy folks. We like Brazil a lot more, I think we had a touch of the post-Argentine-depression. Oh I forgot to mention they speak Portugese here so we are back to square one with the language barrier... |
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| Beach Life
2004-07-04, Ipanema, Brazil. By: melanie | | Ah, we´re settling in to Rio life nicely now. Friday we took a bus to Corcovado to go to the statue of Christ the Redeemer. It was a bit tricky getting the bus as we needed a specific bus that seemed ... |
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| We´re Heeeeeeeere!
2004-06-30, Ipanema, Brazil. By: melanie | | Wow, wow, wow. Finally made it to Rio after 14 hour flight (repeated viewings of scooby doo 2). We bottled it when we got out the airport, realising a bus would be altogether too much for our limite... |
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 | {premiere}
2004-05-14, São Paulo, Brazil. By: carpediem | | First entry, nothing much to say.
Anyway, my favorite time of the day is sunset/dusk, so here's a picture, view from my room. (okay, now I gotta find out how to put a picture in here) |
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 | On the home straight
2004-01-02, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: scottyg | | The day after New Years Day we collected our gear and headed off to the Central Bus station in Rio. We’d been here before, although that was after our mammoth 24 hour bus journey from Paraguay when w... |
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 | Favela tour
2004-03-13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By: khart | | Yesterday, Rachel and I took a tour of the favelas (communities of makeshift houses) surrounding Rio. I am glad that Rachel persuaded me to go. I was worried that it might be a little invasive or voye... |
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