Rio de Janeiro

After what was probably the LONGEST BUS JOURNEY IN THE WORLD! call it 29 hours just sitting on a bus, we made it to Rio. We had about 3 failed attempts to leave the bus station, and then eventualy found the taxi rank where we booked it from sum BUFFness, we didn´t care how much it cost. Welcome to Rio, get me! Stayed at a bad looking hostel for the first night, receptionist was a nob. So we packed up and did one the next morning in search of some other hostel that had good ratings on the net...Spent about 2 hours trying to find the place because it was hidden behind a derelict supermarket, but when we got in it looked cracking. Met some top people straight away, mad props to Eddi, Maiju, Elisa & Nana. They invited us out immediately, see what we´ve realised is that wherever we stay people love us. The night was like nothing we´ve been to before, heaving crowds on the street, cheap drink vendors, music, dancing, mainly guys with their tops off as opposed to girls though, pissed I know. We went into a typical brazillian club and observed the mating rituals of the young (and old for that matter!). Here´s how it works, girl stand alone, guy sees girl, guy likes girl, guy grabs girl and starts to dance, even if he is butters or 40 years older than her most of the time the girl will still dance, if she likes him they kiss and then part company and move on. Interesting, it will take some practise because it´s not just any dance, you can´t just grind her senseless like in Edwards, you need to shuffle, count the beat, swing your hips and move around, and yea it looks a lot better than a boy and girl just grinding down.

We´re leaving Rio today, so here´s a run down of the week. We beached it a hell of a lot, as you can imagine the girls wore very little, and the guys even less! No joke of a lie, the men wear skimpy batty riders, and yes I bought a pair BRRAPP BRAP! We saw the ugliest cathedral ever, we have no pictures, just imagine an upside down cone, looked heavy inside though. We saw that famous Christ statue, look at these pics, cracking views of Rio too.


Botafogo Beach (where we stayed) and the Sugar Loaf Mountain




Christ the Redeemer


Christ the Redeemer from another mountain


Hassan the Redeemer

We had some of the heaviest nights out yet here, Lapa is Rowwwdy, and we´re almost there with the samba moves. We started Capoeira which is some next style of fighting where you have to fight in time with the music, we´ll show you when we get back.

Some of the funny moments, Willem thought he´d try and light a gas oven yesterday after it had been pumping out gas for at least 5 minutes (though he blames the danish girls who he was helping for not telling him how long it had been on for), the resulting fireball was spectacular. He also thought it would be a good idea to cycle around Rio with flip flops on, it wasn´t, his feet got battered no end. Oh yeah, and after falling in love one night he forgot where on the beach he was meant to meet his belle the next day! Me and Zenna have a habit of waking the whole dormitory up, be it late at night, early in the morning we just dont give a shit, as our Norwegian friend put it "It would be nicer if you didn´t talk so much." Zenna has been perfecting his Fortress-building skills, everywhere we go, using the contents of his or Willem´s bags, Zenna will construct an impenetrable pile/wall of mess around his bed. This makes it hard and dangerous for the person in the top bunk to get in and get out of bed. As for me...Im writing the dam blog so my shit aint coming out for at least a week or so. We´re flying to Natal later. Keep the comments coming. Tchau