Goodbye to the marvellous city

Just a few final thoughts about Rio. The people are incredibly friendly everywhere - from the football fans to the waiters in the restaurants - everyone says how much they love England when we tell them where we are from - this is such a refreshing change after travelling around Europe in the last few years! Also, everybody speaks English if they can (which is very good if you are ignorant Northerners who know no other language than their mother tongue). Rio grows on you slowly and if you´re not careful, a year could go by, and you could find yourself stuck there. So we have (hesitantly) moved on to other climes.

This was taken by Andyb when we were on about to board the train on our way down from Christ the Redeemer - we think it´s a capuchin.

By the way - if one other person comments on our blog that "the weather´s lovely here" (referring to Rossendale) the "drought busters" shall fly back immediately and change all that! - consider yourselves warned.