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Published: October 14th 2005
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Copacabana Beach
"Her name was Lola, she was a show girl...at the Copa, Copacabana...."
This was the view from our hotel
Our eventfull ten days started with an SOS e-mail from Will saying he was stuck in Auckland for a night and when he finally arrived his bag and boards didn´t!
So we decided to go to Rio de Janeiro first.
We arrived in Copacabana, Rio at 2 o´clock in the morning and frantically tried to find a hotel because Tom was in more dying need of a number 2 than any man in toilet history.
Will and I where tired of hearing him winge.
No one wanted to accept us at that hour, but after 3 hotels we finally got a room, much to Tom´s relief - and ours!
The next morning we discovered for the first time how beautiful Rio is and how crazy the drivers are.
Will wanted to up grade on our hotel, so we went over to Ipanema Beach and found a nice hotel which although didn´t have bath robes, had a bidet, so he was happy.
We settled in, in adjoining rooms and while unpacking we heard a scream from Wills side, and rushed around to find a curious Will standing over his beloved bidet with a dripping wet face! We all fell about laughing!
We
Ipanema Beach
We forgot the words to "The girl from Ipanema", but this was the view from our hotel on Ipanema Beach went up pay our respect to Jesus the same day and that night caught the cable car to Sugar Loaf.
Day two in Rio we went to check out if there was any surf at another beach and had to drive past the foot of the Rocinha (the biggest favela or slum in Brazil). As we were driving past the police was stopping some cars. To our relief we got through because they had the biggest guns we had ever seen.
After 2 days in Rio we had to head back to Sao Paulo to try and collect Will´s luggage.
It arrived ok so then it was off to Florianopolis.
We left Rio at 3pm and stopped driving when we arrive in Florianopolis at 8am.
We had a fun week in Floripa, did some surfing, sand boarding, ate some good food and just basically lived it up on this beautiful Island.
The photos will pretty much tell the story, plus we are sick of writing, so we´ll leave you at that.
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