Waking up in Rio was pretty cool but it was raining. We had a nice free breakfast in the Hostel. Bannanas and pineapple’s were among the selection. We had breakfast with our new room mates. We headed down to look for the Man United Chelsea match and watched it in a little café and although we were disappointed with the result, we had a bit of banter with the locals.
After heading back to the hostel we decided to go to Flamengo’s match against some crap team I never heard of. A mini bus with other people from the hostel picked us up and we went to one of the local pubs to taste the atmosphere of the game. At first we felt a little akward because we stood out like a sore thumb but football is a universal language so we soon settled in. The barman even knew were Galway was!!! We were in the pub for two hours before the match so we went across to the stadium about a half an hour before kickoff. The stadium is a like a big circle and it can fit over 100,000 people but it fits officially 92,000. Inside the stadium there is no assigned seating…in fact there is no seating at all. Everyone just stands up for the game. The atmosphere was great as well; it is helped by the flares and drums!! When Flamengo scored everyone went nuts, these huge flags appeared out of nowhere!!! One funny thing we noticed during the game was that when someone buys a drink in the stadium, they instantly offer it to everyone else!! The game finished 1-0 to Flamengo so everyone was happy out! After the match we passed a statue of Garrincha, a famous Brazilian. It is a statue of his head and when people walk by they just slap him on the back of the head! We were in stitches and started doing the same thing! I have no idea why they do it but it is a bit of craic!
When we got back to the hotel we watched “Caperio dancing”.
The best way to describe this is that it is like martial arts and dancing rolled into one. The 4 dancers were kicking at each other and ducking and diving, it was pretty surreal! They even used swords at one point! After this we had a few drinks and decided to go to the “Favela funk party” which cost us 50 reals after I used my business negotiation skills to bring him down from 60 reals…Smurfit college eat your heart out!!The staff in the hostel are great fun and we got on really well. We all went on a mini bus to this Favela party which was about a half an hour away but it was worth it!! When we went inside we were allowed into the VIP area. The layout is so strange, Mike referred to it as being like a cattle mart except that there was loads of beautiful Brazilian girls dancing….our kind of mart!!! All the Brazilians seemed to like our Galway dancing, I think they were laughing with us and not at us but who cares we had fun. We got home at 4 or 5 to the hostel but one of our room mates was nowhere to be seen. We looked all over for Paul but to no avail. His friend said that he usually does a disappearing act, so on that note we hit the hay!!!
When we got back to the hotel we watched “Caperio dancing”.
The best way to describe this is that it is like martial arts and dancing rolled into one. The 4 dancers were kicking at each other and ducking and diving, it was pretty surreal! They even used swords at one point! After this we had a few drinks and decided to go to the “Favela funk party” which cost us 50 reals after I used my business negotiation skills to bring him down from 60 reals…Smurfit college eat your heart out!!The staff in the hostel are great fun and we got on really well. We all went on a mini bus to this Favela party which was about a half an hour away but it was worth it!! When we went inside we were allowed into the VIP area. The layout is so strange, Mike referred to it as being like a cattle mart except that there was loads of beautiful Brazilian girls dancing….our kind of mart!!! All the Brazilians seemed to like our Galway dancing, I think they were laughing with us and not at us but who cares we had fun. We got home at 4 or 5 to the hostel but one of our room mates was nowhere to be seen. We looked all over for Paul but to no avail. His friend said that he usually does a disappearing act, so on that note we hit the hay!!!
1 comment:
Nice work lads, sound like yer having the "crack". I have no access to bebo up here in derry so can't see yer messages.Trip sounds class so far. One observation though: isn't the sugerloaf mountain in Co.Wicklow?
Brian.
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