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Where's Christ?
... day so headed to Copacobana beach to laze in the sand. We walked the strip and saw groups of people doing tight rope walking/ gymnastics/ trampolining. We saw people playing sport all along the beach including football, volleyball, American football and what seemed to be an extreme game of bat and ball in fenced off areas where people smashed the ball at one another. Far from the casual Millar Dickinson traditional game.
The next day we boarded another bus to ...
Starting in Rio!
... which was so much fun and we both ended up very drunk on ciphrihinas (spelt wrong I think) they were stupidly strong. The club the hostel took us to was cool, there was a samba band who did a cover of Adele which was hilarious. I actually met a woman I'd turn straight for! She had an amazing bum it was like a light bulb. The next day we had a canny hangover and had to move hostels as ours was fully booked which was a bit of a mission. But we had a trip to see Christ ...
Getting Lost in Rio
... our original flight. A very friendly taxi driver took us out to Botafogo (a district in Rio) in the crazy Brazilian rush hour. The journey took us over an hour the driver was getting obviously frustrated, nipping in and out of the lanes avoiding cars, bikes and entrepreneurs walking up the middle of 3 -5 lane freeways trying to sell, clean cars or generally entertain with juggling, but he still only charged us the agreed price $70 (thanks for the heads up on ...
Brazil Baby!
... with a 5 hour hike through the rainforest, it was so pretty and green, reminds me a bit of Lorne. We finished up in a town called Morrettes where we were served a well deserved lunch which included a traditional Brazilian dish called barreado which is like a slow cooked beef, oh so good. That night the group decided to have a few drinks so we bought a 4.6L bottle of red from the supermarket – turns out it was colonial wine which is disgusting, well actually I ...
The customer is always wrong
... headed towards what we were told was the boarding gate. Stopping intermediately to check, in broken English, several attendants assured us we were headed in the right direction. Not the case. We arrived at the security check with little oxygen left. Presenting our boarding passes we had literally no more time to spare. What the attendant revealed next made Jackie declare that she would "punch someone....very hard!"
"These, no work," the lady pointed to the left.
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