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Writer's pictureNeil Greenwood

Around the World Trip - Day 100 - 11th April 2009 – Rio de Janeiro

After breakfast I said goodbye to Moses as he was heading off home and we swapped email addresses so that I could send him the pictures. Marissa was also changing hostels as her room wasn’t so hot and she wasn’t over keen on the hostel. I had gone to the shop when she left so didn’t get chance to say goodbye but when I got back she had left a note with the reception guy with her email, bless. I thought that was really nice of her as we had only just met. It’s so much easier to keep in touch too now with facebook.


When I got back from the shop I headed over to Copacobanna beach to an area of the beach in front of the copcacobanna beach, which was recommended as a place where all the hot people go, so of course I qualified lol. Spent the day on the beach and managed to sun bath for quite a while without getting restless which is not like me. Maybe it was the good views that kept me amused. I got chatting to a Brazilian guy who was REALLY brown and has that kind of body I’d love, dead slim and lean. He told me about a party later called BITCH that I should go to. Only thing cos of his accent I thought he had said BEACH party so kept looking on the net for it to see where it was and couldn’t bloody find anything lol.


About an hour before I left a young Brazilian lad came and sat with me and chatted for a while and then we arranged to meet up later to go to a club as he said Le boy was a better club to go to. He didn’t speak much English but luckily he had his little laptop with him and could connect to the wi-fi from the hotels along the beach. So we used a translator site to have a conversation lol. The wonders of technology eh? I gave him my email and phone number and said I would go on msn later to make proper arrangements of where to go etc.


Went back to the hostel and had a siesta before having something to eat. By the time I managed to connect to msn it was after the time we had agreed to go online and he wasn’t on, so I sacked the idea of meeting up and just arranged to go to the club anyway. I had a few drinks at the hostel and then jumped in a taxi to the club. When I got there it was a bit early (11:30pm) so I went for a few beers at the café thing next door as there were a few people outside.


When I got in the club it was still pretty quiet but it picked up after a while. I got chatting to a Brazilian guy who kinda tagged along all night. Which was cool as he could chat to people for me and speak the lingo lol. The music wasn’t the best but at least the drinks weren’t ridiculously expensive.

The club finished at about 3am but the guy I was with (a Brazilian version of the name Vinnie) knew a kind of underground club thing that the locals go to that was open till about 9am. We jumped in a taxi and went over to the club. It was a real dodgy dive-looking place but the music was great and everyone was really friendly. It was in the middle of nowehere and the taxi pulled up a this dark mill type thing. It reminded of something of he film 'Blade' lol. You knocked ont he door and a small hatch opened and you went down stairs into this thumbing basement type place. It wasn't a polished venue or anything jus bare brick wallas and bottle skips with beers in you were handed when you passed over your money.


Left the club at about 8am and shared a taxi to my hostel then he carried on to his house.


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