Luxor Continental Rio de Janeiro

... drink out of portable coolers and it was cheap. There were people everywhere doing dirty dancing type salsa and break dancin, there was fire breathers, lads juggling fire and the good thing was they were just doing it 4 the craic, they werent putting a show for tourists. After a couple of vodkas I was a right off and went back to the balcony for a nap. The best part of the night is that when I got home Brian the legend left lasagna out for me. <br>

... machine of multinational consumer goods companies? I hope it is the former, though I believe it is a mixture of the two. <br><br>Dia de la Futebol<br>Ipanema has a Sunday "Hippie" market in one of its large plazas and given it was our last Sunday in Brasil, we had various gifts we needed to buy and we were approaching the end of our trip and could afford (both weight and money-wise) to buy some goods, we decided to check it out.<br><br>It is awesome. I ...

... in to Zoe and Laura and with the airport emptying, we booked a taxi. Just as we had loaded into the taxi, our lift turned up, so we unloaded everything and then reloaded it into his car. It was now 1am and we headed to our hostel in Ipanema, realising that we had no cash on us to pay for the taxi. When we got to the hostel it was pouring with rain and got soaked waiting to get in. We managed to get the hostel to pay the taxi and add it to our bill, we then checked into ...

... which amounts to just over $10 cdn!!! You can eat all you can eat!!! The food is displayed at a round table and there are approximatly 15 odd dishes excluding fruits and salad! It was spectacular! On top of all the food you could grab at yourself, servers would come around to your table and show you different cuts of grilled and BBQ'd meat that they would carve from a large skewer. There was chicken, pork, sausage, beef, and some sort of tongue. All very good and ...

... pour la premiere nuit malgre son handicap (il pese pres de 200Kg et a du mal a se deplacer), me presentera a bon nombre de ses amis et mieux que tout, me soignera le pied gauche en passant plus d'une heure a enlever les echardes qui s'y etaient profondement enfoncees ces derniers jours. Pour le remercier de ses bon soins et le soulager de ses infames douleurs, je me propose meme de lui faire un massage. Nous nous quitterons excellents ...

... is more of a depressing feel and I would certainly not want to venture into many of the neighborhoods on my own. Soon enough, we entered the core of the city. Being the weekend, it was quiet, but the depressing feeling of the outlying slums had given way to an atmosphere similar to that of a big city anywhere. Just a brief description of the city . . . Rio is a metropolitan area of nearly 12 million people, with about 7 million within the city ...