My last day in Florianopolis was a slow starter - had some poolside beers with some Aussies in the afternoon, well into the evening, and into the wee hours..... during which time I ate the best pizza of my life - well, I thought it was. From memory it had boiled egg and raw onion on it, so I must have been very drunk to enjoy it.... so there was a bit of lee-sure time in the morning on the beach to recover before I headed on the l-o-n-g journey North up the coast to Rio....
Another overnight bus - which was full of Australians - and landed in Rio this morning. Wow - what a great city. A massive statue of Christ (I´m talking huge - huge) overlooks the city from a mountatin above, and Sugarloaf Mountain overlooks the City too. There are massive sweeping beaches..... it´s pretty amazing. The hotel I´m in is three blocks from Copacabana beach, so a great spot! Now that all of my worldly belongings are safely locked in my hotel room, I´m slightly more relaxed. I have only about $20 on my person, so if anyone wants to mug me, they can have it.
Carnaval officially kicks off today - and the city is mad, crazy busy. The decorations are amazing and when Belinda arrives at 1:30pm, we´ll start our adventure about town and meet up with some other Aussies. The taxi on the way in drove past the Sambadrome - which is amazing. In two days time we´ll be there for the ¨official¨Carnaval competition, but in the meantime there´s balls, and street parties everywhere.
Shame I can´t take any pictures - I think my camera would last about 5 minutes on the street outside!
Much more to report later no doubt!
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