Ibis Rio De Janeiro Sto Dumont

... Pousada Um Meia Tres "small, friendly boutique hotel, with panoramic views of Rio"<br>Pousada Pitanga "french chic meets bohemian Santa teresa- superb value for money"<br>Casa Beleza"exotic mansion in lush tropical gardens in the heart of Santa Teresa"<br><br>All wonderful, in quiet streets but close to all the restaurants and bars!<br><br>

... again, a brotha cant find a regular girl here, its damn hard. <br><br>Anyways... I talked with many locals and they all say the same things Coppacabana is fantasyland... so really im trying to spend all my time in other parts than where im staying. Unfortunately I booked an apartment for one month but after one week and a half im ready to get to a much smaller city in the North of Brazil. I just booked a plane to fortaleza which is a change of pace, much smaller and ...

... staying in Rio for the duration, we stocked up at the grocery store, though we still ended up going there at least once a day! It was Mary experiment night. The result was a wonderful eggplant sauce with whole wheat pasta and salad. I am lucky, because she keeps my belly full (but me hungry!). <br><br>Tijuca: Urban Rainforest and Thoughts while Riding Through Barra<br>Given we weren't hiking near Teresopolis, we decided to check out the Parque Nacional de ...

... beaches for a couple of hours, then another bus to take us back to where we were staying.<br>We got our bus tickets the previous day for Iguacu and had to be at the bus station for 8.30 so we were wondering how we were going to be up in time in a room that has no windows.<br><br>Went on a hunt for an alarm clock, which took a while, ended up finding a little clock in a gift shop in the local shopping centre.<br><br>Dinner, then sleep!

... cute, and loved posing for photos on my camera, and then looking at them after! We´ve moved from Ipanema to Copacabana now, and although the Louis Vitton shop is no longer round the corner its still pretty cool. Being a suntan junkie I squeezed in an early morning beach session (yea I said early morning, dad definately won´t believe this!) leaving Katie at the hostel and i´m not as impressed by beach, a little dirtier but does the job! We´ve ...

We flew form Sao Luis where I passed my 28th year to Rio.  We were staying in Camila's, Bruno's niece's, appartment. I know it's like we've stayed,with his whole family. We met his Mam too in Brasilia, which went some way towards explaining Bruno. She was mental. We had met Camila's mam in Trancoso. It turned out though that Camila studied and worked a lot and had left us a key. We weren't to see much of her.  She lived in a beautiful apparment though. On the ...

... represents a suburb of Rio - Sanguiero was the best on the night (and the eventual 2009 Carnaval winner). With each club having 80 minutes of parade time the last samba-ing finished about 7am Tuesday morning, with the stands in the SamboDromo still packed. We left exhausted but full of life. Now on to enjoy the rest of Rio ... after a long long nap. We hope you are all well and lots of love, from the Samba-ing Bek and Jesse train.

... my stop information on it back to the bus driver. After a few seconds, she returns with the message: this is the right bus. I sit for a few minutes pondering my options before I asked a younger guy to help me in hopes that English is more common in his generation. After a minute of useless English/Portuguese exchange, he takes the paper back to the bus driver. I couldn't hear the ...

... blocks inland. <br><br> <br><br>We walked past a few bars which were dead this early and then found one which was absolutely packed. <br><br>This was the venue for a few beers... and our very last caipirinhas! <br><br> <br><br>By now we were a bit sozzled, so Katie was able to convince me to go to some poncey fusion ...

... were going NUTS and even if we couldn't understand the words to the 'Fogo' songs we could at least keep up the tune... <br><br> <br><br>The standard of football was pretty good, not as fast as the Premiership but definitely as skillful, if not more. <br><br> <br><br ...