Today started off like any other day, we got up around a casual 10am, enjoyed the hostell breakfast and decided to kill time before our pickup arrived to take us to the football.. The annoying thing about the day is that Rio Carnival events organization, who we booked the tickets through have still not contacted us confirming they have our hostel details- even though we sent them 4 emails. This also means we do not know what time the transfer will turn up-if in fact they do turn up. At this stage in the day something just does not feel right. To kill some time we decided to go to the beach for a couple of hours at Botafogo. There is a nice beach, but the sea is full of rubbish which is a shame becaused
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