Bamboo Rio Hostel Rio de Janeiro

... which makes me feel better cause i thought i was just going to be the sequel to "taken" and so for the rest of the after noon beach dude and i did not talk but he went with me to copacabana and took me on some high rocks overlooking rio and then when i tried really hard to tell him that i was leaving on a bus he got up and packed his stuff and then asked a police officer, carrying what looks like a machine gun, where the bus was to lapa (where i am ...

I woke up at 6am the next day and took the opportunity to start writing these travel notes. After a breakfast of tea, bread, cheese and banana, I left Cata to work on her essay which is due on Monday and accompanied Fred to "Light" the local telephone company where he had to run an errand. I listened carefully to his conversations to brush up my Portuguese. I found that I've surprisingly picked up a lot of vocabulary from the Rosetta Stone course. I was very proud ...

... movie watched, plenty of funnels, cake in the face and a bar drank completely dry we landed in Rio ...

... the beach! And low and behold what was across the street only an Irish bar, well I mean it would b an injustice to our fellow irish men and women if we didnīt go into the irish bar in Rio!! We had lovely grub there, I hav to say Iīm struggling a little with the cusine over ere, its not that it isnīt nice or anything but Iīm what u might call a biteen of a vegetarian, I no, what is a biteen I hear u ask! wel it means I donīt really ...

... modem. It seems she was afraid I'd use her computer and she put it in a closet. After about 10 minutes of persuasion, I finally got the modem out of the closet. She cringed as I unplugged it because she had no idea how these things worked and made me promise to put everything back in order. Then we went to lunch at a por kilo place down the street. Ney was so sweet trying to explain how it works. She kept slipping into French while doing it. Just ...

... card was actually cloned in Venezuela and the *******s took $1500 out of her bank account!! Reen went back to the room and told Adam. Adam was very suprised how cool, calm and collected Karrina was. But within 30 seconds Karrina had her little tantrum, a few harsh words were thrown around and a few objects went flying accross the room (none of this directed at Adam though, he was so lovely about it all). After the tantrum she felt 100% better. Called the bank and they ...

ive been swiming in blue paint all day. we painted the next street along blue all morning and all afternoon. Miranda started working at the favela today and having only heard dodgy things about her was a bit suspicious, but she seemed nice enough if not a bit lets go to english clubs, english people are the best - obviously true but when in rio...! There was ...

... swearing, and overly exerting himself during the game. He was so animated that most of the tourists watched him more than the players. Bruno said there is always an old man like this at the game - but it's even funnier when the loud fan is an old woman! Also, going to Maracana gave us a taste of the other side of Rio - the non-touristy, dirtier, and sketchier side.

We got back to ...

... used to be lawyers (one of them was apparently the Intelectual Property lawyer for Microsoft Brazil?!) but they both decided to jack in the rigeurs of a very stressful job when they fell in love with hang-gliding and realised that they could make a living from it.

We'll ...

... and stopped. An official boat of some sort, police/military, had run out and took a position on our starboard side. After awhile an announcement was made that the port authorities had a problem with some of the paper work and we had to hold till it was cleared up. They kept us for about an hour, by which time we had to go get ready for dinner so we missed the beautiful views as we sailed from Rio.

Carol had ...