Río de Janeiro

Spent about a week in Río, got to know the city a bit, but I didn't manage to do any of the touristy things (Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf, Football). Didn't even spend much time on the beach as the weather was quite overcast and rainy a lot of the time. Of course, on my last day, the weather was beautiful and the beach was heaving, lots of beautiful tanned bodies around. Thought I'd spend a little time on the beach before leaving, and ended up nearly missing my bus!!

Met several people in the hostal, including some french girls. We had a conversation about junk mail... a friend of mine keeps a collection of funny junk mails. I expressed my concern of how my name got on the "small penis" list, but was reassured to find out that the french girl also receives "might aswell go big" emails:

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I met another American who lives in Río and is training to be the manager of a hostel which caters mainly for israelis (all written material in the hostal seemed to be written in hebrew, no english or portuguese in sight). Strangely, although his portugues is fine, I don't think he speaks any hebrew!

Another first for me in Río was having to negotiate to get out of a bar. They surrepticiously wrote down a 12 real entrance fee on a bit of paper they gave to me, and although I didn't partake of any drinks they were still eager to charge. Managed to excuse myself by telling them I was just looking for some friends who were there.