6th March 2013 Today’s mission: Christ the Redeemer. You can see him from almost anywhere in Rio, arms outstretched like he’s trying to hug the entire city, so it felt only polite to pop up and say hello in person. We bravely boarded another Rio bus, which turned out to be more theme-park ride than… Continue Reading

5th March 2013 Having finally conquered my battle with technology last night (copying posts from the tablet to WordPress nearly finished me off), I wrote this entry directly into WordPress. Progress! Now all I need to do is crack the art of embedding photos into the blog. Watch this space, I’ll get there before the… Continue Reading

4th March 2013 My body clock, still stubbornly stuck on UK time, decided that 5 a.m. was the perfect hour to wake me up. Back home, I’d probably have been pedalling furiously on the bike, but here I was wide awake in Rio, sulking at the ceiling. After a few futile attempts at drifting back… Continue Reading