Willandclaire’s Travels

Ola,

right we´re in Rio, have been for about a week it is a pretty damn cool city but in the end still a city so full of poverty/dirt buses/shops and MC Donald’s - we´ve been sunning on Copacabana beach, up to see Christ (the Redeemer – he´s a nice fellow), we live in a favela – not through choice but we didn´t know – we´ve been to a mental street carnival drinking peeing in the street/eating meat on sticks/banging music/silly outfits parade behind a samba bus and been to the world famous Sambadrome where they do the mentally long 12hour carnival parades – the outfits were amazing – (they must have been sweating their tits off) apparently one of the huge articulated truck sized carnival floats was a ski slope! Mad! they know how to do a carnival here. Seems a shame that all we get is Pancake day : )

Other things we´ve done include got sun burnt – got drunk – tried to speak Portuguese (failed), eaten food in places where u just pile it on and pay per KG (wa wa wee waa!) - seen the after effects of a gas line explosion got rained on, cable car to sugar loaf mountain, getting tiered of eating cheese (bigman would be loving it) -  and that’s about it – obviously a condensed version but there you go.

We have just booked some tickets to bugger off down South to a place called ilha de mel (http://www.ilha-do-mel.com/) hopefully we should be able to lose the rain which has been troubling rio for the past 2 weeks (apparently the 7 days weather we have had with 3 days of sun has been good in relation to the last 3 weeks)

P.S pics will come soon but i can´t connect anything to these pc´s