Rio and more football!
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
After a quick feed and change of bags in Guernsey and another three flights (one of which behind the most annoying man ever who was quite keen on doing some “plane chair gymnastics” during the 12 hour flights to Rio – and he ate my Chocolate!!! – gotta love that British Airways leg/toe room – sorry Mandy!)
Anyway, arrived in Rio and went to our slightly better than backpacker accommodation and did the beaches, sugar loaf, Christ Redeemer statue – he’s not all that impressively big, but the view from around his feet over the city is pretty cool! It amazing how they managed to build a city between so many hills.
Managed to squeeze in another game of football at the Maracana as well, here the load bangs really were gun shots! But don´t worry mum, we were really safe wghere we were sat and it was a really great game. The stadium was pretty noisy as it was a derby game, but was still only 60% full for a semi final game. The first goal went in after about 30 seconds and I thought we were in for a lesson in Brazilian defending but it ended just 1-1 and went straight to pens. Apparently the stadium is still the biggest in the world, one guy reckoned 210k but I think that would have involved everybody bringing a three year old child to sit on their knee! I was also told that Brazil were hosting the 2012 world cup – which was interesting news I think the rest of the world would like to know about!!
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