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Up on sugar loaf mountain they have cable cars
Up the top they had a sheet to write world cup messages
I made sure it got authentic with the touch it needed
Carn MK next update....after breakfast I went up stairs to get bag.....
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Got up Monday 9th June at 07:20am.
Today it is on. I am heeding to Rio de Janeiro to party for a few days before heading to Cuiaba for the Chile game.
Actually excited as its getting very real now.
Got the day off to a good start by locking myself out of my room. First time so far. Left the door card in the power slot and shut the door. Went down stairs got a replacement. Returned the replacement after getting in. Went back up and my original card wouldn’t work FFS
Back downstairs and got the card situation right. Got in and done some packing. Got a card out this morning as I need it. As I started packing I went searching for it. Turned the room upside down but can’t for the life of me find it. Pretty certain it is not in the hotel room but in my luggage. Where though????
Gonna present an issue if I don’t find it later. Down stairs for breakfast eggs Calabrese and some pancakes. Back upstairs another check on my room for this card. I am satisfied it ain’t there. Head down and check out. Had prepaid hotel but was hit with a $R26 tourist tax $15Aud. I don’t have too much of an issue in the money but FFS include it in your ****ing price.
Jump in a taxi and head to airport $R45 later $25Aud and I am there. Bit odd here. First up you go through xray baggage screen before checking in which was good 15 mins. Then in through the metal detectors. Some dumb count left his phone in the pocket so got the pat down personal attention before going back and doing it again
Into boarding gate and wait. Kick back and listen to some music. Place is a little cramped and crowded but lots leaving for World Cup. Iguassu was full of tourist people as per normal. A lot of them were in town on their way to WC
Flight took nearly two hours. Did get a bag of crackers that when I got I viewed with some suspicion. They looked like they would have the flavour of cardboard mixed with water.
They deadest looked like rice crackers. Good news were they were better than Arnotts Shapes.
Landing in Rio the view was spectacular. Bay Ocean Mountains etc awesome contrasts
Add in the Favelas and there was just so much to see.
Anyway waiting for baggage but who do I find?? The blokes from Newy who I bumped into at the Colonia ferry last week.
Good chat seems we had been doing similar things just different directions
Go searching for the WC ticket terminal. Airport is huge but am unable to find it. Checked later it turns out I was looking in wrong terminal.
Get a pre booked taxi. Took 45mins to get to Copacabana
See Christo Redentor up on the mountain as we go past on the freeway. Cabbie took us pars Copacabana Beach. Memory will be forever tarnished by the Milli Vanilli on the radio
Get out at hotel check in. First thing is on the internet. Made contact with 2people for ticket trades.
First one said he would be down in 30mins. Other one said he can see my hotel from his window. Ran outside and waved him down. 10mins later and this bloke from Brisvegas was giving me a England V Costa Rica ticket for cost price of $190Aud.I will be sitting with his party at the game
5mins later the only bloke who I know really well who is over here walks in the hotel to check in. I hadn’t seen much of him recently as he has been busy working and had no idea we had same hotel Found a drinking buddy already.
20mins later my Brazillian mate was giving me ticket to Iran Nigeria for $50Aud 1/2price
Good chat was had by all. Then went for a stroll along beach. Had to cut it short with nightfall. Not to be near beach at night for safety reasons.
That being said the local cops are ****ing everywhere. Every 2nd street corner you will find one.
Headed to bank and go some money out. Didn’t need it but wanted to try whilst there was no need. My debit card failed but my cc came up trumps. Odd both Visa both Greater BS
Got pretty good rate of $253AUD /$500BR
Next up went to a laundry. Things were starting to get delicate on that front.
First one was fun
No Ingles. **** seemed to be trying to upsell ironing clothes. Dumb ****s like me don’t iron anyway.
Ended up going to another. Bloke spoke perfect English. Was a bit of a joker to. Had a chat and told him where I had been. He told me there was now flooding in Iguassu so it looks like I got lucky. $30 aud later and my washing was sorted. No laundry mats here. No washer and dryer the hotel wither. The hotel will do it but at $US 10 for a pair of jeans $US 6 for a sort **** that.
You would need an overdraft for a load
Anyway grabbed a Milanesa again from a nearby restaurant. Came with Feijoda a local dish. Black beans in a pork gravy. Sort of like Baked beans but a little more up market.
Headed back to hotel and sat on roof top bar drinking piss with my mate and 20 odd other Aussies for the rest of the night. Good night was had.
From the roof you can see the Media centre from where the les murrays and fosters etc will be broadcasting their dribble. Thank **** I don’t have to listen to Foster carry on until I get home
Made it to bed before midnight just
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Got up Tuesday 10th June 2014
Down stairs for breakfast eggs Calabrese and some waffles. This time I pored it and left the handle alone. Handle is intact. Back upstairs another check on my room for this card I need. For some reason some dumb **** decided to hide it in my little first aid kit. Why??? **** knows
Good news the DLSR has made a comeback from the dead. Pack the bag as had a tour to go on today. Had to meet at hotel on beachfront. Thought I would go for a stroll on beachfront. Was raining so cut short. Headed to hotel and met up with group.
We were off on a Favela tour. Jumped in a mini van with a dozen other Aussies and were heading to Rochina the most famous favela of all. Some bloke who couldn’t work out whether he was black or white filmed a video clip there beck in the day before he became more of a joke as a celebrity
Pulled up at the top.
Got out and first though was shit. May not make it out of here alive.
Took some photos of some power lines which are haphazardly put together.
Went for a good stroll through the joint. Tiny twisty walkways rubbish everywhere faeces here and there odours that are indescribable. Took about 3 hours to get from top to bottom. We stopped off at various spots. Local artists chefs etc where we had a chance to buy stuff. Some kids played some kick arse drumming for us. 1 had a drum the other 2 had old paint cans but FMD they were good.
Stopped off at an orphanage school. Left a donation of some notes and emptied the wallet of shrapnel.
Took some get photos as the rich and poor areas meet. Mind-blowing you could have such a disparity metres apart
Headed back to hotel and grabbed some stuff dumped some stuff and took off for the FIFA ticketing centre.
Google maps said 2.1km
Closer to 10km by my reckoning. Took over an hour and I never got lost once.
Went in after 30mins queuing. Neglected to book an appointment as I had planned to get at airport the day before.
First up got directed to the machine. Tried putting the card in to get the tickets I bent a few rules to get. As there was some bloke nearby holding a rifle and I am doing shut I shouldn’t be am nervous as all.
Couldn’t get past the DOB thing. Not wanting to push it I aborted mission and pulled card out. Stuck the other card in. This was for my legit ticket in my name etc.
Houston we have a problem. Got sent to the counter 40minsof queuing later I had 6 more tickets.
Australia v Chile/Holland/Spain
Honduras v Ecuador
France v Honduras
And 2nd rd Brasilia winner Frances group v runner up Argentina group
Most likely reason I had to go to counter was I had a ticket sold back as I got 2 to the Dutch game
Not wanting to push my luck strolled back to hotel.
Walked down by the beach. On my way could hear a ton of sirens. Thought the Griff was in town as I haven’t heard as much noise since the day Griff scored the winning goal in the GF
Turns out it was the ****ing English NT who are based in Rio before they go home in dis grace again. You weren’t getting within 20metres of the ****s anyway such was the presence of authorities
Strolled along Copacabana beach. They were putting the fondest together. Less than 48 hours to go. **** me they had a lot of work to do. Strolled along and who do I meet but my drinking buddy. Swapped tales of why we had done today. I had planned to go to Christo Redentor and Sugar loaf Mountain cable cars but as it was over cast decided to give it a miss for better weather day.
He suggested we go for more drinks.
Without much hesitation I was acquiescing to this. Headed back to hotel. Said I would beep in 10mis. Logged on to Fifa and found my issue alas that my false accounts dob was wrong. I was off by a day.
Headed up and got stuck into the caprinhias.
R$12 aud $6
Caprinhiais a local cocktail made with cachaça I think it is called. Cachca is the Brazilian spirit as vodka is Russian rum is Jamaican
First up lets just say they don’t measure your shots. You get a good helping. As the day wore on they get bigger and bigger as you make buddies with the barman his generosity improves.
Second up these things knock your fuĉkin socks off. Ice lime sugar lime juice
A few of these and you end up in a favela you will be ending up with a sore arsehole in the morning if you survive.
Sitting up on the roof you were able to notice the nearby hillside Favela.
Real close to Copacabana like 3 blocks from us
Rather odd that here the hillsides have the poor and the flat has the rich. Usually it is the other way around. Some of the views from the Favela would be billion dollar. Barely makes up for the squalor they live in though.
Sat up their getting smashed where we had a problem. They operate on a great system hereof honour. You keep buying drinks then you settle your bill at the end. Works out sweet as you don’t end up with a pocket full of shrapnel
Anyway someone had skipped out in our party without paying
Everyone left was cleär so a whip round was had to cover it.
Arseholes
Headed off to an Irish Pubs
Br$38 for 2 beers and we were out of there. Dear and shit hole anyway
They did a different system where they give you a bit of paper and write your orders on it. At the end you present your paper for payment. Basically you can’t afford to lose your paper. Real good idea with drunk people. **** knows how many Tab or Keno tickets I have lost after a few beveräges
System definitely wouldn’t work in Australia. The amount drinking a skinful and bolting would be epic
Ended up heeding to a beach side café after a kick about on the ave Atlantica
****s told us they had no beer so we were off again.
Found a restaurant/bar had hamburgers and continued to get smashed. Staggered back to hotel after 2am
This thread: My Santo, Sam & Ed substitute for this WC
Btw, still got most of their shows on my DVD HD from last WC!!!
"Took some photos of some power lines which are haphazardly put together."
To show your mates or your family?
show us the power line photos MKFC
Brillant posts by the membah.
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Got up Wednesday 11th June 2014 at 07:30 feeling worse for wear. Anyway ponied up and packed the bags. Due to misfortune luck of bad draw I had to change hotels for 1 night about 2km away
Bags packed and down for breakfast æ dozen or so of my drinking buddies were bound for Cuiaba today. I have another day here.
Anyway some waffles pancakes and some cheese bread a plate of Calabrese and scrambled eggs and I was ready to face the world.
Wandered outside to check the weather. Sun was shining but a little cloudy and hazy. Left luggage in storage and checked out of hotel
Decided to head down to Sugarloaf Mountain. They have a cable car system there that takes you up the top of the mountain. From the cable car and 2 stops there are spectacular views over the city
Jumped in a taxi. Drove down road sat in traffic jam for 30mins. Lights and the mucking English NT holding traffic up.
**** those ****s. Stevie G and Rooney cost me about $5Aud due to them holding up traffic
I am death wishing those ****s all tourney now
Finally made it to the base at $R 30 and ten of that was the English NT fault
Why in ****sname as these princesses living it up in Rio anyway??
There is far too much excitement here for good focused preparation anyway
Another R$60 a short10min wait and I was on my way. Jumped in the car which could fit 50-100in it
Took a vantage point on the window and started and started taking photos to keep my mind of my dislike for heights
Within a couple of mins we were at first stop. Got off spent an hour up there. Could have done it in 15 mins Took a pile of photos even got some kick Ares ones of planes coming into land at the nearby city centre Santos Dumont airport
A bazooka or RPG could do some damage
Got in cable car to go up the top and my drinking buddy mate is in it. He has gone on a tour today to Christo and Sugarloaf
Poor bugger paid $140Aud for it
I done half of it for $55Aud and I got to do it at my leisure. This poor bugger was being dragged along at the quick tour group speed not getting to fully embrace it.
Spent another hour up the top level taking it all in. This is where I tagged the banner striking the love for griff etc.
Ran out of battery on camera so cancel of plans for Christo Redentor this arvo. No point going up there with just mobile phone
By this stage the sun was beating down, still a bit hazy in the air but getting quite hot and steamy. Decided to make a move as starting to get concerned about sun burn
Headed for a walk and found a chemist bit of google translate and sorted out a 50ml bottle of sunscreen. Reason I only bought 50ml as at around $15Aud that was as much as I now wanted
Rubbed it in and went for a short walk to the FIFA ticketing centre.
In and out in 5 mins with my remaining tickets now I had the correct birthdate.
M49 winner Brazils group V runner up of Australia’s
M55 winner Argentina’s group V runner up Frances x 2
M58 Rio QF at the Maracana
Plus another spare France v Honduras ticket
Have a trade arranged for my M55 for the M 60 Brasilia QF
Anyway walked out of their grinning like a Cheshire cat.
They take your photo. When I got the first lot I smiled and basically puckered up
This time I pulled the hat down over the face closed my eyes and basically let them take a photo of my nostrils
If I could have worn a balaclava I would have
Jumped in a nearby cab
Dumb **** gypo he was.
There are basically 4 main streets in Rio. Off that run a pile of side streets.
The dumb count first up had NFI when I gave hotel name.
When I gave ä nearby hotel still had NFI
When I wrote it down he had NFI
When I typed it into my phone and had it pronounced back at him in Portuguese the **** had NFI
When I pointed it out on a map he still had no ****ing idea.
Anyway jumped in and told him I would tell Pare (stop) when need be
Bloke decided to drive in the opposite direction I wanted him to. Got him to stop and go the right way Ave Atlantica helped get him some guidance
When the dumb **** left Ave Atlantic I called an end to this charade and jumped out.
****ing gypo supporter I bet
Walked back to hotel collected luggage and jumped in taxi to new hotel.
Check in place looks the goods but is like a showbag.
All glittery and shiny and full of shit.
Tap handles fell off toilet would barely flush, no internet in the room. Disgrace good news is it was clean and only one night.
Threw the swimmers on headed to the beach and took a swim. Water was fine temp wise but gee they had some power for waves as small as they were and some good rips going to take a few people out to sea. Got out and strolled down the beach. Some absolute delightful sights. Some others that should have been wearing garbage bags
Spotted the large contingent of Aussies having a game of beach football and another couple of hundred a drink. Went and joined them.
Two hours later headed back to hotel for a quick tub and back out for dinner. Decided to have a quiet one as have a big day tomorrow onward bound to Cuiaba
Went searching for a feed. Nothing specific.
Spotted my mate from Brisvegas who hooked me up with the England tickets. Told me he got photographs on FB of him and Les Murray on the beach together. Sure as shit he does.
Of course I wasn’t in their interested in this place they were in so walked for ages checking various things out. Really wanted to go to a Ĉhurrasco but couldn’t find one. Stopped somewhere and after 3 failed orders IE they didn’t have why was on the menu I ordered a steak.
Came with fries salad and rice. Also came with farofa I think it was called which was a bread crumb like spice to mix and flavour the boiled rice. Wasn’t bad just left you thirsty so knocked off 5 Skols. Even come in a tinny which in warm weather is almost handicapped as you drink 2 before you notice
Headed back to hotel to charge up the gear phone camera tablet etc and hit the hay at 9:30pm
It is ****ing hot here guys 30c at 10am and is getting hotter. About to leave for pre match piss up 6 hours of it.
We stay in this game late and we will run over the top of these little ****s.