Hotel Pousada Aguazul Buzios

... myself when Fred asked Cata for "uma caneta" and to everyone's surprise I appropriately handed him a pen. On the way to el centro, we found out that there was to be a good football match on Sunday -I'm going to try to go, it sounds amazing. Football is a religion here and Fred is fanatical about Fluminense, one of four Rio football clubs. He's bought Martina a Fluminense football shirt which he dresses her in proudly to Cata's despair. We also hunted around for a ...

... tv. But regardless of what they´´ve got or haven´´t got, they were some of the most friendlyist and kind people I have met. You felt warm and welcome in their prescence. They are continually trying to make you feel welcome by offering coffee, mango juilce, dinner, desert. They were amazing....

My 1st night in Rio De Janerio, my 1st day of my travels and am I happy I decided to do it... Yeah man....Publish

Love to every one at home xxx

... so we bowed out ungr*ciously.

So we *w*ke to * flood in our ‘*p*rtment’, I h*d moved the shower he*d which resulted in it dripping *ll night which the blocked dr*ins could not cope with. We were supposed to be cle*ning out the entire truck th*t d*y but *fter * bit of indign*nt ‘my needs *re gre*ter’ I excused myself *fter cle*ning just one cr*te to sort out our own mess. A lot of our stuff w*s wet so we needed to sort out l*undry *nd ...

... present - a tiny blue summer dress and a big pink birthday girl badge to wear for the flight ...

... way-points. But they quickly informed me, saying that number 10 was where all the most beautiful women and celebrities spend time on Ipanema beach.... and then the penny dropped... it turns out that number 8, where we had parked our untanned white hides was smack bang in the middle of the gay & transexual section of the beach. Inexcusable I know, but we're walking in the surf paying no attention to the passers by, or the people we sat down beside. Let that be a lesson to us all!

... cruise around the area around Copacabana (where the Hotel was). The next day, after a ridiculously big breakfast, I headed for Copacabana beach, prob the most famous in the world. In Carnival though, the crowds on it are unbelieveable - almost like a Full Moon party in Koa Phang Ngan. It is a nice beach though and just watching the people play soccer volleyball or real volleyball itself is reason enough to go there. They are fantastic. Beware though, ridic looking ...

... of the city), it is crammed full of tourists but is well worth the visit, aside from the obvious sight of himself, the views over the entirety of Rio are amazing. And whilst appreciating the view, you are continuously buzzed by four or five helicopters flying around him, adding to the drama of the spectacle. Whilst here it was absolutely imperitive to check out the Maracanas, the worlds biggest football stadium, alledgedly capable of holding 200,000 + when ...

... of a second slower than a stationary clock by the exact amount predicted by Einstein's formulas. The best explanation I have heard for why this is (and I have read many such explanations, usually concerning trains and light beams) is the fact that you travel through both space and time (hence spacetime). Imagine yourself traveling in a cardinal north direction and then turning 45 degrees to the east. You are now traveling partly north and partly ...

Right, nothing like a couple of beers to help motivate catching up on a few blog entries. So I am in Buzios (not really since I am about a week into the future from this entry) with this dude Rob that I met in Rio. Rob is from England, is 21, and is doing something similar to my trip. His story is kind of interesting in that he was in Israel working on a Kibbutz (something like a commune) for six months and met a Colombian girl who was also ...

... supposed to run til 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM. Hey, I didn't mind...I got to only work a morning. Ahhh, how great soccer is here in Brazil! Thursday (the 29th) Marc had three friends come visit him from New York. Kevin, Dan and Ryan. Marc's birthday had been on Wednesday...he turned 28. This new dude named Thaddeus also came into town. He used to work with the program coordinator here back in Chicago and dropped by to help us with our production of GREASE (he's a music teacher ...