Brazil
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Friday, 28 Nov 2008 | Views [486] | Comments [1]

We arrived in Rio's Novo Rio bus station at about 3 in the afternoon, over 2 hours after leaving Copacobana. The reason for the delay was a torrential rainstorm. We had had a lot of rain in Rio but things had certainly stepped up a notch. Our destination ... Read more >
Tags: modern art, buffet, natural disaster, ipod, gaucho
Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008 | Views [303]

On the tour we also met a few more people, Justin, another professional traveller, this one a Kiwi, on his third round the world (RTW), Sylvia, a Slovakian kids clothes designer and Olivier a French civil engineer who had just started their RTW in ... Read more >
Tags: cbd, modern art, hippies, live music, football, urinal
Saturday, 22 Nov 2008 | Views [287]

Installed in new room and now with the prospect of decent sleep it was time to get out there and see a bit of the town. Normally we would be the last to go on one of these “city tours” that are organised by the hostel but because we didn't know our ... Read more >
Tags: jesus, stadium, cathedral, sugar loaf, cable car, attempted robbery, missionary
Thursday, 20 Nov 2008 | Views [374]

Goncalo Coehlo, the Portuguese navigator, arrived at what is now Rio de Janeiro on new years day 1502. Thinking that the Bay of Guanabara was the mouth of a large river he named the place “January River”. We arrived, slightly bleary eyed after a long ... Read more >
Tags: rio, party, bbq, portuguese, football, beach, cooking