Still in Rio

... still in Rio and not been robbed or mugged yet!-acutally we have been mugged twice but not as you think-read on! 24th Dec xmas eve 7pm-went to Rio central this morning and it's the worst city center in the world as all the action takes place on the beach-been walking Copacabana beach all day -it's over 4km long! -must have walked over 10km today-seen everything on the beach-valleyball,football,tennis,open air gym,smallest Mcdonalds ever! etc-downside is you can't take your camera with you for safety reason so not too many pix to show-been to a very nice Arabic restaurent for lunch/dinner on the beach side called Amir-on 22rd went to what must be the worst Indian restaurent ever called Indian Cuisine then on 23rd we went to even the most worst ever Indian restaurent in all my life called Rajmahal-Rajmahal my arse-more like poison mahal-I mean how can you call a dish Mattar Paneer when it's got no mattar or paneer and the bastard had the nerve to charge us 175 Riels ie 55 quid-we can eat happily for 2 days on 55 quid-I am sure the bastard closed it for the rest of the day after we left and went to the beach as he made whole weeks profit from poor us!-I mean we were warned that we could get mugged by some poor Brazilian after dark but they never warned us that we could get mugged in broad day light in some shitty Indian restaurent by our own kind-although I must confess it's all my fault as my wife has reminded me a few times over the last 48 hours as I had read the reviews on the net about these two restaurents before going there and they all said DO NOT GO TO THESE TWO INDIAN RESTAURENTS as THEY SERVE ANYTHING BUT INDIAN FOOD but me being patriotic and all that I had to find out the hard way(thank god these are the only two so called Indian restaurents in Rio)...we have to say Brazil as a whole has been real disappointment comapre to Chile and Argy where we had great time and Rio is specially very disappointing to us...it does'nt feel like xmas here as it does in UK...on the night of 21st they had a huge carnival type xams parade on Copacabana beach and it had real festive spirit...tomorrow xmas day and nothing planned except that we are hanggliding over Rio at 9am to start the day then it's party on the beach all day with the locals...
by the way Vedanta is asking what's the weather like in the UK!..and if you are going to the beach or not!...