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South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Copacabana February 16th 2015

Beautiful sunrise as we entered the harbour of Rio, Sugar Loaf and Christ the Redeemer hit you in the face, a spectacular site from the water, Christ the Redeemer just sitting above the cloud, like it is floating! Breaky early and head out into the thousands for the last day of carnivale, 3 street parties to go to!! First one on Ipanema Beachfront, fantastic costumes and music and dancing, then onto a more suburban one, could hardy move! Last one was the best - Brazilians sure know how to party - doesn't matter how big! - those bodies just shake and dance! Millions of litres of beer consumed in Rio today!! Then headed out to Copacabana beach for dinner at a Churasscaria restaurant, absolutely stuffed full of lovely meats bought to our table and carved in ... read more
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South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Copacabana December 25th 2014

A nice walk down the Copacabana beach, complete with fresh coconut water, straight from the coconut. After our miserable dinner last night, we treated ourselves to a nice dinner we had planned at the Copacabana Palace Hotel!... read more
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South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Copacabana December 1st 2014

Beauty is subjective and in the eye of the beholder. Though I've yet to experience Paris, a city many consider to be the most beautiful in the world, I've always put Prague and Venice at the top of my list. Rio, well, I think it deserves more than an honorable mention as 'most beautiful city'. Most of you have seen hundreds of pictures of Rio and will see a lot more as the 2016 summer Olympics near. I can only say that pictures do not begin to convey the energy, vibrancy, grittiness ,and incessant rhythms of the city. During the prep for this trip our Rio hotel had been changed 3 times. The last change was only a week before our departure. Getting rooms for 18 people in various configurations (singles, doubles, triples) was not an ... read more
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South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Copacabana September 10th 2014

Hallo meine Lieben! Hier begrüße ich euch nun zu meinem allerersten Blogeintrag! Am 10.09. bin ich also früh morgens am international Flughafen in Rio angekommen, und war innerhalb von 40 Minuten mit Immigration und allem fertig. Draußen hat dann schon mein Taxifahrer auf mich gewartet, um mich dann zu Vincis Hotel zu bringen, dass im Zentrum lag. Das Zentrum ist allerdings nicht die wirklich schönste Gegend, aber ich war dort ja nur ein paar Stunden, bis wir zu unserem Apartment im Viertel 'Copacabana' konnten! An diesem Tag haben wir nicht wirklich viel gemacht, außer Schlaf nachholen, zum Supermarkt direkt neben unserer Tür zu gehen und essen. Am nächsten Tag sind wir dann zum ersten Mal zum berühmten Strand, der Copacabana gegangen, und haben dort einen gemütlichen Tag verbracht. Der Strand hat seinen guten Ruf wirklich verdient, ... read more
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South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Copacabana August 12th 2014

unser letzter tag in são luis und wir genießen noch einmal kurz den strand. wieder bunte bikini-schönheiten, cocos-wasser, das gehört irgendwie hier zusammen. auf die gefahr hin, dass ich mich wiederhole, muss ich nocheinmal schreiben, wie sehr es uns in brasilien gefällt. viel seafood in cocoscreme, cocktails, die karibische musik und die quirrligen locals machen aus unseren letzten tagen pure ferienstimmung. unter der dusche am strand kommt es dann zu witziger völkerverständigung ob meines, wie bereits erwähnten, geradezu keuschen bikinis. eine junge frau mit eher unwirklich prall hervorquellenden brüsten in neongelben rüschen fragt lächelnd auf mein unterteil deutend, wo ich denn herkäme. austria, europa. das erklärt natürlich alles, für sie. schmunzelnd meint sie, ich solle mir doch auch einen “brasilian bikini” zulegen. mach ich vielleicht auch noch ;-). das mit der verständigung... read more
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Today was another travel day, this time from Brasilia to Rio de Janeiro with a quick stop in Sao Paulo to change flights. In the 1.5 layover, I grabbed my ticket to the France vs Germany game, cancelled a flight and ate lunch. Both flights were quick and smooth. In Rio, we landed at the airport that sits right in front of the Sugar Loaf. I waited there for my friend Bruno who was coming to the airport to pick up his wife Antonia and daughter Nina. I had seen them in Blumenau on Saturday night and they were to land in Rio about 40 minutes after me. While waiting, I all of a sudden noticed Brazilian soccer legend Rivellino standing right in front of me. He was a star in the 70’s and was on ... read more


Today was mostly about travel. Our flight out of Rio was at 1.15pm, so in the morning we went to a nearby cafe and had breakfast, then walked a few blocks around a big avenue in Copacabana. In the morning time, the look and feel of the city was more like Chennai or Bangalore. We got back to our apartment around 10.30, cleaned up everything then took a taxi to Santos Dumont airport. We were traveling to Goiania and connecting through the Sao Paulo airport. At the airport there was a big screen showing the netherlands v mexico knockout game, and we watched the full 2nd half along with a bunch of people. Dramatic finish to the game: Mexico were already 1-0 up when we started watching, then just when we thought there would be a ... read more


After a good night's sleep, popped down to the local supermarket this morning and got some breakfast: pizza bun type things with different kinds of meat....and again pay-by-weight but i did not indulge too much this time. Then around 10am we took the subway down to Ipanema beach and decided to walk down the beaches all the way to Copacabana beach where the Fan Fest and public screening of the first game was to be held. The sand was so soft and the water so clear and beautiful. And it was also very very clean unlike beaches in Chennai, although i don't know if this is the norm or if it's been spruced up for the World Cup. In any case, it was very enjoyable to walk for about 5km along the water's edge, getting wet ... read more


Bryant and I departed from Dallas at 4pm on Thursday June 26th. The flight had one stop at Miami and then went on to Rio, arriving at around 7am local time in Rio on Friday June 27th. As usual, due to my inability to sleep sitting up, i did not sleep at all throughout the flight. Admittedly i did close my eyes and was in some sort of 'low power' or 'standby' mode but no proper sleep by any means. Our taxi driver spoke only Portuguese, but we both had brushed up enough to be able to tell him the address as well as figure out how long it would take to get there. We're staying at a rented out apartment (as hotels are way too expensive during the world cup). Since we were a little ... read more


Following our last aiki training session in Brasil, we headed out to the beach to watch Brasil versus Cameroon. What a cracker! Literally so, as fireworks flew for every brasilian goals - there were 4! I dont think Ill ever watch a game of football in better style - feet on the sand, tropical ocean lapping at my toes and gorgeous sunset in the background...... read more
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