After the exhaustion of the past few days, I slept like a log last night. I was the best nights sleep that I've had since Barcelona. I know I was going on about going home again, but as I've already made that decision and I'm staying, I gave myself a good talking to and if I'm staying, then I need to start enjoying myself. So today, we became typical tourists in Rio and headed to the beach. What a very different experience that was. I'm used to clean beaches, with generally speaking not too many people around, and the major sound of the beach is the waves crashing. In Rio, it's oh so very different. The Beaches are pretty busy, and for the record budgy smugglers don't look good on anyone, not matter the age or the size! And ladies, let's just say that some sizes shouldn't wear a g-string bikini. Just as you lay down and get comfortable, the sales people arrive selling sunglasses, water, beer, food, sarongs, bikinis, hennah tattoos, jewellery, sunscreen. You name it and it would appear that you could buy it while at the beach. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, and they took no for an answer quite well, it was just very different than I'm used too. Oh and the water was freezing!! The rest of the day was pretty much being slack.

Tomorrow we head off for some markets and we'll see how heaving are backpacks will be by the time we lealve the markets :-)