hey guys,
Its been a busy week or so in brasil so that has been the delay with posting some more stuff. But this should be a big one so you can all sleep easy tonight.. i know how worried you have been...
Ok so ill try and do this chronologically.
After florianopolis we left for the big Rio, which was the most expensive bus trip so far, we got ripped off so bad. so 18 hours later we hit Rio. The city of Beautiful people wearing no clothes. Here we were really lucky, we legged it to the (so called best) hostel and met 5 of the coolest people we have thus far encountered. Helen (eng) & Craig (ireland) who we were sharing our dorm with, and Tim & Nikki (eng) and Liliana (Switzerland) who were also in the hostel. It was with these people that we ended up drinking with in our room while outside it poured down and water leaked through our ceiling (hitting the fan and lightbulb on the way through).
Day 2 of Rio we all hit the beach to the famed Ipanema, (aka girl from ipanema), where i attempted to play soccer with 4 soccer mad brits while cami and the girls just lay in the sun and bought stuff from the beach vendors. So fast forward a few days and here are the highlights:
1) getting to see christ the redeemer on a nice cloud free day (sucked in craig, nikki, tim, helen and liliana)
2) having beers on the rocks of ipanema and copacobana while a vendor showed me how to play a bamboo saxaphone.
3)watching the ´sunrise´ from ipanema beach at 530am, which turns out is non existant due to the high rises in the way. Thanks Bert.
Ok so then everyone has to leave; Tim and Nikki for Chile and Craig and Liliana for their respective home countries. But Helen stays on with us and we head to Ilha Grande for both my and Helens Bdays (hers being on the 2nd of May) How Convieniant.
Ilha Grande is about 2 hours south of rio, and a short speed boat trip.
Note to Elton: Cruising through the harbour on a speedboat to Ilha Grande i finally got that warm feeling that you were talking about when i had all those issues with my charming ex boss.
Anyway we ended up in a little possada (hostel/homestay thing) run by a 50 yr old surfer with no voice and huge amounts of enthusiasm. We named him Raspy.
We spent the next three days just sipping beer on the beach and enjoying calamari and chips in the loverly brazilian sun. On the second (Happy Bday Sarah), we went out for a nice dinner, so we all got as dressed up as possible, assisted by helen who was only on a 10 day holiday and thus carried the largest suitcase known to man.. But we ended up having the nicest dinner on the beach, complete with Caprinhas (a mohito type drink) and stuffed calamari for Cami. Post dinner we headed for the next bar, which we had some trouble locating. Cue Raspy who was out on the town with a dozen of Ilha Grande´s most eligable bacholors. He directed us to some authentic brazilian club where no one spoke english and everyone on the dancefloor was about 50 or 60. Whatever, we have now been to the most authentic brazilian island club ever.
Ohh and i forgot, pre dinner we saw a comotion on the wharfe in town and as we went over it turns out it was an almost impromtu capoheria(sp?) display with all these little local kids. Eventually the big dogs came out and did some crazy stuff it was awesome, but it lasted about 3 hours... needless to say we got hungry and went for dinner before the end.
Hmm what else happened;
Oh yeh on Ilha Grande we were warned there was no ATM, so we thought we were adiquately prepared. Ofcourse after 2 days we ran out of money and were contemplating heading back to the mainland to pick up more, but (ever up for the challenge) we decided that would take too long so we decided to save our last 30 reals and try and use credit card for the last 2 days for everything possible. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!
Oh yeah. We also got to have lunch on a floating restaurant. It was on our second day on our way back from a lake on the other side of Ilha Grande, a charming little floating restaurant pontoon, complete with its own little pully taxi service. Good fun.
So my Bday was a little more chilled thanks to the slight hangover we were all feeling, but cami and helen got me some little presents and then we just lay on the beach most of the day. Dinner however we ended up at a pizzaria somewhere, and after ordering our beers and pizza we waited for about 1 and a half hours for our 2 pizzas. (we did get an extra beer and a rose made out of a serviette for my bday compliments of the waiter). Regardless eventually we were so starving we demanded an explanation. Apparently there was a small miscomunication between us and the waiter and although we pointed to the menu asking for 2 pizzas he didnt think we ordered anything. 2 hours down the drain. Thankyou very much. Whatever we enventually got fed somewhere else. all good!
We are back in Rio now staying at a different hostel. It was a bit grey today so we have just sorted out our travel arrangements for tomorrow. We are getting on a bus to the Brasil-Bolivian border which will take around 30 hours. Fingers crossed there is some nice scenery or a couple of movies (although they will be dubbed in Portuguese so thats not a huge draw).
Might be quite a few days before we can get in contact again. Cami wont have any phone reception in Bolivia (or so shes been told) so we will be relying on internet. Hopefully in Bolivia we will be able to use pay phones to call internationally, unlike here where you cannot.
Lots of Love to everyone and happy mothers day to those who it concerns
Steve + Cami x
Ok so ill try and do this chronologically.
After florianopolis we left for the big Rio, which was the most expensive bus trip so far, we got ripped off so bad. so 18 hours later we hit Rio. The city of Beautiful people wearing no clothes. Here we were really lucky, we legged it to the (so called best) hostel and met 5 of the coolest people we have thus far encountered. Helen (eng) & Craig (ireland) who we were sharing our dorm with, and Tim & Nikki (eng) and Liliana (Switzerland) who were also in the hostel. It was with these people that we ended up drinking with in our room while outside it poured down and water leaked through our ceiling (hitting the fan and lightbulb on the way through).
Day 2 of Rio we all hit the beach to the famed Ipanema, (aka girl from ipanema), where i attempted to play soccer with 4 soccer mad brits while cami and the girls just lay in the sun and bought stuff from the beach vendors. So fast forward a few days and here are the highlights:
1) getting to see christ the redeemer on a nice cloud free day (sucked in craig, nikki, tim, helen and liliana)
2) having beers on the rocks of ipanema and copacobana while a vendor showed me how to play a bamboo saxaphone.
3)watching the ´sunrise´ from ipanema beach at 530am, which turns out is non existant due to the high rises in the way. Thanks Bert.
Ok so then everyone has to leave; Tim and Nikki for Chile and Craig and Liliana for their respective home countries. But Helen stays on with us and we head to Ilha Grande for both my and Helens Bdays (hers being on the 2nd of May) How Convieniant.
Ilha Grande is about 2 hours south of rio, and a short speed boat trip.
Note to Elton: Cruising through the harbour on a speedboat to Ilha Grande i finally got that warm feeling that you were talking about when i had all those issues with my charming ex boss.
Anyway we ended up in a little possada (hostel/homestay thing) run by a 50 yr old surfer with no voice and huge amounts of enthusiasm. We named him Raspy.
We spent the next three days just sipping beer on the beach and enjoying calamari and chips in the loverly brazilian sun. On the second (Happy Bday Sarah), we went out for a nice dinner, so we all got as dressed up as possible, assisted by helen who was only on a 10 day holiday and thus carried the largest suitcase known to man.. But we ended up having the nicest dinner on the beach, complete with Caprinhas (a mohito type drink) and stuffed calamari for Cami. Post dinner we headed for the next bar, which we had some trouble locating. Cue Raspy who was out on the town with a dozen of Ilha Grande´s most eligable bacholors. He directed us to some authentic brazilian club where no one spoke english and everyone on the dancefloor was about 50 or 60. Whatever, we have now been to the most authentic brazilian island club ever.
Ohh and i forgot, pre dinner we saw a comotion on the wharfe in town and as we went over it turns out it was an almost impromtu capoheria(sp?) display with all these little local kids. Eventually the big dogs came out and did some crazy stuff it was awesome, but it lasted about 3 hours... needless to say we got hungry and went for dinner before the end.
Hmm what else happened;
Oh yeh on Ilha Grande we were warned there was no ATM, so we thought we were adiquately prepared. Ofcourse after 2 days we ran out of money and were contemplating heading back to the mainland to pick up more, but (ever up for the challenge) we decided that would take too long so we decided to save our last 30 reals and try and use credit card for the last 2 days for everything possible. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!
Oh yeah. We also got to have lunch on a floating restaurant. It was on our second day on our way back from a lake on the other side of Ilha Grande, a charming little floating restaurant pontoon, complete with its own little pully taxi service. Good fun.
So my Bday was a little more chilled thanks to the slight hangover we were all feeling, but cami and helen got me some little presents and then we just lay on the beach most of the day. Dinner however we ended up at a pizzaria somewhere, and after ordering our beers and pizza we waited for about 1 and a half hours for our 2 pizzas. (we did get an extra beer and a rose made out of a serviette for my bday compliments of the waiter). Regardless eventually we were so starving we demanded an explanation. Apparently there was a small miscomunication between us and the waiter and although we pointed to the menu asking for 2 pizzas he didnt think we ordered anything. 2 hours down the drain. Thankyou very much. Whatever we enventually got fed somewhere else. all good!
We are back in Rio now staying at a different hostel. It was a bit grey today so we have just sorted out our travel arrangements for tomorrow. We are getting on a bus to the Brasil-Bolivian border which will take around 30 hours. Fingers crossed there is some nice scenery or a couple of movies (although they will be dubbed in Portuguese so thats not a huge draw).
Might be quite a few days before we can get in contact again. Cami wont have any phone reception in Bolivia (or so shes been told) so we will be relying on internet. Hopefully in Bolivia we will be able to use pay phones to call internationally, unlike here where you cannot.
Lots of Love to everyone and happy mothers day to those who it concerns
Steve + Cami x
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