Wow! Rio is an amazingly beautifil city. The setting picture perfect, weather perfect (if not too hot) and people very friendly. People were arriving like us the week before Carnaval, the city was chockers, the most tourists we have seen yet. Learning from previous screwups, we now take enough money with us to do things and saw some sights! We visited Christo (again), hired bikes and our own tour of Rio (great way to see the city and enjoy its setting *even if it was 40degrees - we even researched the best Pastel place in town and road there especially), Lagoon (twice the size of albert park), Sugar Loaf, Lapa (Samba school district and Arches), Walking tour around the CBD with Nic as guide, Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. After our stay at the Guesthouse we moved
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