Still raining in Rio!!

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Á whole load of us have been kicked out of Ipanema beach house so Jim and I have moved to Catete, a residential area of Rio closer to town. We get our own room and it´s cheaper too! Yeh! Thought we´d have a change of scenario.

Last night, a whole group of us from the hostel went to check out the nightlife in Lapa. Safer in large numbers. It was basically one huge street party with very cheap caprihanas. The caprihanas here are so strong!! Some of the people from the hostel were scaring the locals. One Australian girl was hugging the policeman and kissing him on the cheek. He was like "no kiss, no kiss". One guy seemed to be pursuing a very skanky prostitute. We´re still wondering if he made it back home to the hostel.

Some of us decided to hit the samba clubs but by the time we went to them they were closing. We thought the nightlife was meant to carry on til sunrise. Anyway, Jim and I are going to check out a samba club tonight. Should be fun!

I´m feeling sleepy now. It´s only 4pm. We got back to the hostel at around 4am but then I woke up around 8.30am and couldn´t get back to sleep cos I was hungry.

Anyway, we´re just going to laze around. Hard to do stuff in Rio when there´s torrential rain. Going to a football match tomorrow - Flamingo vs Botofogo, it´s meant to be a good match, looking forward to it! No doubt we´ll bump into lots of people we met at the hostel again.
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