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Ipanema BeachRio, was good, very good; just as well as this (7 days) is the longest we have ever stayed in any one place. We were a little worried at sharing a room in a large apartment with the owner along with the comings an goings of relatives and friends etc. but need not have been; we were made very welcome and very much left to ourselves to come and go as we pleased. There are certainly some fringe benefits from living with a local; you get the good oil on what´s good and not, where to go and not. The location was ideal; (Aproador) squeezed between Copacabana and Ipanema we were spoilt for choice with beaches although they still can´t top those in Aus. We arrived on a weekend with 30+ temps and the beaches very crowded with non-locals; the locals (caricoas) stay away on weekends.
Did the usual sightseeing stuff - Rio is very picturesque and has some amazing scenic vantage points. Wanted to see and experience the lively night scene at Lapa and as luck would have it, one of the owners visiting relatives arrived and was also keen to go so we had our own personal guide/chaperone.
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Aproador Beach We didn´t know it at the time but the guy was a practised dance performer. It wasn´t too long before he found a bar, the music and a couple of willing women to strut his stuff - impressive.
On leaving Rio I managed to test out the lost and found at the airport. After passing through the final check point and trying to puchase something at duty free I dscover I no longer have our travel wallet containing, well everything. Any Rio tan I had acquired immediately vanished; We evetually got the attention of the airport police and a few others and had a giant piece of luck discovering that it had been turned in at the lost and found; even more suprising was that everthing was in tact, even some dinerio - there truely is a God.
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