Greetings from Rio! Well, as you can tell from the name of this post I have lost the competition to avoid using dodgy Rio-related lyrics and my penance is to buy dinner tomorrow (not much of a punishment seeing as we are paying for this trip from our joint account).
So, as the song goes, we spent today at Copacabana beach. And very lovely it was too. Jo & I were only outdone in our pastiness by a few old blokes, but who cares? Its not like anyone here knows us. Contrary to the myth of the Brazilian body beautiful, the beach was full of all shapes, ages & sizes and the only constant was that everyone was ludicrously tanned. It seems the local approach to sunscreen is to slap on some coconut oil and take the stance of "skin cancer? never heard of it mate!". We also got into the local swing by buying some local flipflops (known as "Havaianas" in these parts) which come in a mind-boggling array of colours and styles. I am now the proud owner of some "trekkers" and a pair of "flash", whilst Jo owns a pair each of "style" and "slick". She was also eyeing some with an Amazon theme, but they were quite pricy at $5 a pair.
But what of our travels so far? The UK seems miles away and it is quite odd that we´ve only been here 24 hours. We managed to find the bus that would take us to the hostel straight away, but failed miserably to get off at the right place. However, this kind of worked in our favour as we got to do the whole tour of Rio before the driver kindly brought us back and made sure we got off. The hostel seems nice and friendly enough, so we dropped of our stuff and did a little exploring. We are right in front of the big statue of Christ on the hill, across the main road from the beach in an area called Botafogo. It seems okay, not quite as swanky as Copacabana or Ipanema, but okay for us (aside from the noisy Canadians, but they got told off by the owner for waking her up at 4am - ho ho ho - and I am famous for my ability to sleep through almost anything). I have already found a restaurant that I want to check out tomorrow night, it´s called Mariu´s and apparently has the most amazing seafood buffet at $16 for all you can eat. Hooray! Tonight though it is the backpacker special of pasta & tomato sauce (we did have quite a big lunch) with fruit for dessert. Lovely.
Signing off for now so I can check my emails etc.
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It seemed almost unfair to read of your exploits and not reply. So, London is still here, some fucker carved me up as I turned into Coleman Rd and the lovely guy who runs the dry cleaner waved good morning to me this morning.....there you have it! Domesticity continues in sunny old LANDAN TARN.
Great to see you both at the pic-nic. Delighted all is going great so far...
LOve R, K & L'il Louuis
Doesn't Botafogo have a footie team?
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