Rio de Janeiro

The guide book states this is a dangerous place so we made a hotel booking before geting here for Copacobana beach. A nice place, although not a patch on BA and rediculosuly expensive. Our hotel was basically a B&B with two single beds. For the same price we paid for this we could have stayed in a two room suit in the Ritz in La Paz Bolivia!

First day we did a tour of the city centre, OK, but like I said not as good as BA, but the evening was good, we drank Caprinias on beach bars all along Copacobana. I made one of the bar tenders show me how to do it and the next night went to the supermarket to get all the ingredients and made them for Rach and I. It was so amazingly cheap that we were already completely drunk before leaving the hotel. When I get back to the UK anybody who comes round our house will be treated to a dan made Caprinia (I´m bloody good at it according to my tastbuds)

The next couple of days were to be spent on the beach, but it was raining! Raining on Copacobana beach can you believe it, in fact it was overcast so we couldn{t even do the viewpoints and Christ the redeemer!. We did however go to the district of Santa Teresa by tram and see some of the boring sights like the cathedral etc.
Made a decison to leave and come back when the weather gets better