The favelas of Rocinha
A day like today is the kind of day you hope for on a trip like this. Mind blown and expectations crushed I now know I have seen true poverty but also the pervasive ingenuity …
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We’ve been expecting you…
The Windsor excelsior is grand and feels safe enough to calm our tingling spider senses from any danger we anticipated from arriving in Rio. A scary looking security guard practices his best Portuguese pit bull …
Read More →We’re here…
Squeezing every minute of free wifi out of Roma airport, we download some last minute apps, post statuses and thank people for their good luck wishes on Facebook. We feel very loved by it all …
Read More →The misadventure wager
An extensive list of items was drawn up to gamify happenings on the trip. With an inkling that “bad things are gonna happen” it was decided we needed a preventative but fun way of racking …
Read More →Jet lag
I awake in blackness to a room I have met but am unfamiliar with and scrabble around for a light emitting device. I have little luck in finding anything useful but eventually remember where I …
Read More →6.am. Alarm. Wake. Dress. Breakfast.
The last of the lasts complete their cycle to make room for the first of the firsts.
The rucksacks make themselves comfy in the boot of the Mercedes and are worried if they are full …
Read More →Man down
Our fallen comrade spall is recovering in RAF Calverton after stepping on a land mine in the dogma area of Nottingham. She is said to be recovering well whilst eating blueberry muffins. Earlier fears of …
Read More →Day minus 7.
Seven days left until journey’s beginning.
Through a whirlwind of planning, budgeting, booking flights, leaving our jobs, mortgage renegotiations, intravenous inoculations, subcutaneous yellow fever vaccinations, leaving parties, moving house, fraudulent eBay disputes, doxycycline, selling cars, …
Read More →Help, we accidentally got immunised…
I couldn’t do the birdie song right now.
Three pricks in the arm are better than one in the bum.
Or….
Help, we accidentally got immunised…
Diptheria, Tetanus and polio combined. Hepatitis A and Typhoid, my favourite immunisation cocktails, …
Read More →Hello World!
Testing the new Merrells!
Braving the wilds of the unspoilt eastern-Knowttingham market town of “Beengham”, we strapped into to our new hiking trainers and traversed a circuit around the perimeter of this far and distant land. …
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