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My name is Kelly Bree and I have been planning my overseas adventure with my boyfriend Tim for the past three years. We’ve done an awful lot of talking about it and now the time has finally come for us to jet off to South America and the United States before settling in London to find jobs and earn the mighty pound.

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Seeing a different kind of bum

There was only one destination to visit in Rio de Janeiro the second the sun came out - one of the most famous beaches in the world, of course. So like excited children we woke up to a sunny morning and headed straight for Copacabana Beach....

Cheap thrills

It was a grey and drizzly day and the whole of downtown Rio seemed to be asleep after the first official night of Carnaval. So we took a tram from 'Centro'Ā to Santa Teresa, a bohemian district, high on a hill, which is apparently...

The mighty Corcovada Mountain

Nothing is quite as iconically Brazilian to me as the amazing Cristo Redentor statue which stands like a concrete scarecrow hovering above Rio de Janeiro. I had to see it and the bus trip to Cosme Velho where Cristo lives also provided a...

It's never too early for $2 beer

On our first morning in Rio de Janeiro we took a walk and got lost, only to end up in a sort of Saturday market of filth and junk. There were piles of every sort of rubbish imaginable, squished along a highway underbridge. The smells were...

Taking off to Rio

For the first two days in Rio de Janeiro , the same phrase kept popping into my head: Rio is the pits. The more I saw of this crazy city, the more my phrase rang true. Every time I felt totally unsafe on the dirty streets, every time I...

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