A working afternoon

When we got back from the shops, we had some toast with the delicious kumquat marmalade we bought from Hendrick's mum in Trinidad, Paraguay. I then set up my office on the terrace and worked allRead more
When we got back from the shops, we had some toast with the delicious kumquat marmalade we bought from Hendrick's mum in Trinidad, Paraguay. I then set up my office on the terrace and worked allRead more
We got up at around 8am and had a banana and a coffee to keep us going while we went shopping. The local shops are all at the bottom of the hill we came up in the taxi yesterday. It took us aboutRead more
This morning, after a leisurely breakfast (our last hotel breakfast before the Premier Inn at Gatwick in May! 😂), we got packed up and checked out of the hotel. We asked them to store our bags forRead more
After lunch, we got on another Rio Samba bus to take us back to the Lapa district, from where we could walk back to our hotel.
We spent the evening watching movies.
Our bus tour continued past Rio's big wheel, Sambadrome, football stadium with a statue of Pele outside, and Ipanema, an upmarket district full of designer shops and posh restaurants as well as aRead more
The Samba Bus tour continued through the Lapa district where we had the opportunity to get off and visit the Selaron stairs with Andrea. Mark stayed on the bus because we were only there the otherRead more
From Copacabana Beach, the bus took us close to Sugar Loaf Mountain and on to Teatro Municipal where a girl was dancing the samba on the steps. She got on the bus to give us a private show!
TheRead more
Mark was feeling a bit better this morning, so we decided to get out and explore Rio. He wasn't up to walking far, so I looked for a bus service. The only hop-on, hop-off bus I could find was theRead more