Rio time

After a 19 hour bus ride, which was surprisingly ok (as we had aircon and spongy seats) we made it to sparkling Rio. We´re staying in Ipanema with favelas behind us, and the beach in front. We´ll put a photo on in a few days of the favelas and the new lift that they have built from the street up to them. It´s pretty cool.
The weather has turned unforch and the rain has been coming down so we haven´t made it to Sugarloaf mountian or Christ the Redeemer as yet, so lucky we booked in for 8 days! So what are you to do in Rio when it rains? well we´ve been exercising - after all the cheese, and fried food we´ve been eating (South Americans seem to dislike vegetables!)and long bus rides it was certainly time to start pounding the pavements. We´ve even been pumping iron with the locals on the beach - check out the photo below.....