Our (future) base in Rio.

After breakfast, we went over to the apartment of Stein's friend's, Luis and Delphine, in Leblon.

They were incredibly kind and welcoming, showing us around their place - which, from early February for a week, we will call home.

And what a place! A two-storey light-filled penthouse set back a few metres from the beach, with a glass-bottomed pool and large terrace on the roof facing the Atlantic breakers.