Rio

... 20/12/07-at last in RIO!...Ilha Grande(IG) was beautiful and we rested well and now we are ready for more travel and new discoveies..IG is a small tropical island with very few people,just 2 streets and no cars,unpaved paths and wild!...spent most of my time in a hammock by the beach reading the new Harry Potter book and I have to say it´s the worst book in the HP series,read it in 4 days now it´s Pritti´s turn,weather was good in the end.We ate everyday at Biert Garden,buffet but you pay by weight of the food in your plate and for 15 quid for 3 we use to eat like Kings...this concept I have seen 1st time and it could work very well anywhere.

We left IG on 18th by ferry and arrived Rio on 19th,weather is cloudy but hot and we have a beachside hotel in Rio called Arpoador Inn on the corner of Copacabana and Ipenema beach...evreyone warns us not to take anything with you except little money once you walk out of your hotel and it is rather scary and we have loads of horror stories from other travellers...visited Maracana Football stadium-The Great PELE´S home-it´a concrete structure for 100,000 fans and it´s a stadium of bygone era´s of 60´s-new one to be built fo 2014 World Cup in Brazil...Rio has great location by the green/blue sea and black/lush green mountains but the city it´s self is again stuck back still in 70´s...hoping to hangglide/paraglide or something over Rio very soon hoping to do it on xams day...