Luxor Continental Rio de Janeiro

... eachother's backs without looking in each other's eyes. They lead very separate yet inextricably linked lives. Each detesting the other yet supporting each other's habit/business.

It is the rainy season here still. It's funny how each country has it's own weather vice: the weather each country cannot handle that makes it grind to a halt.

We also have some very interesting guests where I'm at too. We've complained that it's not ...

... tha t-we-can't-really-afford' kitty. Strapped into our harnesses, that looked more like bulletproof apron (suitable for use by Venezuelan bus toilet cleaners after we'd given it a run for its money), and then hooked up to the wing we ran off the edge of a mountain into thin air, soaring like a bird (and above birds)... Yet another once-in-a-lifetime experience, hard to describe.

Unfortunately, thats where the great weather ended and the rain started ...

... bless. I thought that was really nice of her as we had only just met. It's so much easier to keep in touch too now with facebook. When I got back from the shop I headed over to Copacobanna beach to an area of the beach in front of the copcacobanna beach, which was recommended as a place where all the hot people go, so of course I qualified lol. Spent the day on the beach and managed to sun bath for quite a while without ...

In Rio ist die Hoelle los, das bemerken wir schon als wir mit dem Bus die Stadtgrenzen erreichen - Menschen ueber Menschen und das soll sich auch bis zu unserer Abreise nicht aendern. Mit seinen seinen 7 mio. Einwohnern ist Rio de Janeiro die zweitgroesste Stadt Brasiliens nach Sao Paulo. Dank meines Cousins Basti haben wir koennen wir mit in ein angemietetes Appartment im Stadtteil Leme ziehen. Leme liegt direkt neben Copacabana was ...

... ascent to the top, the views on the way up were good, but from the top, they were truely breathtaking, you are able to have an almost 360 degree view of the city, you can see both the north zone and the south zone, the Pao de azucar (sugar loaf mountain), Copacabana and much more. On the top, it is pretty packed with all the tourists scrambling for the best viewpoints over the city, but truely amazing, furthermore, we were lucky enough to have good weather ie no cloud to hide ...

Today I walked around Leblon, a very affluent area of shops & maximum security housing complexes with pistol toting guards that growl at you if you peer through the gates. Seemed a strange, if sadly necessary place to live. I have yet to see any of the poorer areas but it is already apparent that Brazil is one of the most unequal societies in the world, just as Alan Gilbert lectured to me . I Found Pedro II park ...