Cocacabana beach and Christo at Corcovado

Hi all, Another tough day catching a cab up to Corcovado in the morning to take in the views around the statue of Christ here in Rio, and then spent the afternoon at the beach among the absolute dumper waves, which are frickin dangerous as I saw a few unfortunates get tossed around like rag dolls. Where my Portugese fails and English is useless in this city, my Spanish gets me through, and I´ve met my fair share of lovely Brazillan ladies to date who are more than willing to practice a few new language skills with a friendly gringo like myself :-) I think they all got a kick out of how white I was on the beach and it seems to attract a fair bit of good attention, can´t complain ey! Hey Miguel, Ecenatardo, vamanos mi casa ahora ahora mi bonita chica! :-) hahaha What´s Irasemas email? Yo muddler, missin you bro, how´s tricks with those crack pots? :-) Last night was a Portugese BBQ restaurant (mental blank) where they bring out meat on swords and carve it up in front of you and it´s absolutely all you can eat, where myself, my roommate (another aussie bloke) and two kiwi girls left the restaurant and went for a stroll down at Cocacabana absolutely stuffed, all for around $40 real each or around $20US it´s good value! So, next we´re soon to move on to Paraguay, and it´s goodbye to Rio, which has been so fun, and not as bad as everyone says, but still there´s good reason to watch yourself and those around, just witihin moderation. On a side note, we know that the locals don´t mess around when it comes to dissagreements as after the two ladie boys on the street this morning asked my room mate ´we go for a f..k?´ this guy broke the end off a beer bottle and was running after another guy ready to glass him in front of the whole street, we were very glad it didn´t eventuate, so as with anywhere, sometimes you just have to let it go. Anyhow, it´s dinner time soon and a few cervajes in this golden city for our last night as part of the spectacular carnaval I think! Stu or Mike, have you got Liz´s email? Take it easy Adam

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