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Got up Thursday 12th June 2014 at 5:30am feeling worse for wear. Seem to be coming down with a cold. Had a rough night sleeping with the nose throat etc going off .Anyway ponied up and jumped in shower. Bags hadn’t been unpacked so took **** all time. Went down and checked out at 6am.

The bloke at reception estimated it would take possibly 2 hours to get there if traffic was rough and assured me he used to be a cabbie so knew.

Anyway traffic was good and only took us 30mins to get there.10mins were wasted by parasites protesting on the freeway. ****s jumped on a 90km hour freeway and blocked 2of 3 lanes leaving 1 free. ****s even had the cops there condoning it who could easily have told them to stand on the footpath and protest
Only about 50 of them. Won’t matter about their cause because in 12hours time the worlds focus will mean their issues are forgotten. Wonder how many of the parasites will watch the game tonight. ****ing hypocrites

My cabbie in a display of daring that would never be done in Australia used the break down lane to navigate the chaos. Gave him $BR100 as he was stellar.
Checked in and dumped suitcase then got something to eat.

Had nearly 4hours to kill due to the ridiculously early arrival. Typed up the blogs I was behind in and cost myself a fortune by losing something.

When we had to change gates as the custom here. Happens 2-3 times per flight. At the 2nd move I left my tablet cover under the seat I was at.

Only problem was I was using the pocket to store some money in

Had about $60Aud $200US and about $50Australian of Uruguayan and Argentinean money
Also had a USB stick in there. Nothing I don’t have at home but would be useful here none the less.

Went for a search and was told by someone the cleaner took it. Found a cleaner but of course no Ingles. Walked the area we were in looking for someone who could help me with directions for lost property. You think in my hour of need I could find someone who spoke Ingles???

Not in your life. Ended up had to jump my flight to Sao Paulo without it. About time I lost something on tour just wish it wasn’t so much.


Anyway flight to Sao Paulo was fun to say the least pile of Aussies pile of Chileans.

What was even more fun was the 6-8 seats that people had boarding passes for. Dead set we had 4 people with boarding passes to same seat. Somehow there were seats not assigned and all got a seat but ****ing insanity.

Flight is fun goes for under an hour and most of that is circling Rio to follow flight paths and circling Sao Paulo. Spend about 20mins actually flying and another 30mins wasted on circling airports on departure and arrival.

Thought I would have a look at Sao Paulo unable to spot the WC stadium from the plane. Did see lot of concrete. The place is ****ing huge. Ridiculously large.

As we had 2 hour to kill in Sao Paulo and you had to go through the x-rays to get a connecting flight I walked outside for some fresh air as you had to do it there anyway to get back in.

Headed back in and jumped on the internets to find first game up in HAL is gypos away. Bring it on. We are just about due to win a game first up in the season.


Jumped back on the plane to Cuiaba. Once again the same circus with the seating. Basically we just took an empty seat now an saved the shenanigans

Settled in for some tunes on the 2hour flight to the middle of St America.
Pretty sombre affair. Most napped

Land in Cuiaba one hour before kick off to the World Cup.

First thing I notice airport isn’t close to being finished for the WC. Most of the place is hoarded up construction site.

More importantly the ****s haven’t installed any AC
Being that is 35C and it is the middle of winter a glaring oversight.

Anyway jumped a taxi and made way to hotel. Drove past the Statue of Liberty.

Yep these ****s have their own Statue of Liberty statue.

First impressions of this place is it is a shithole. Seriously Gosford looks like a cultured capital of the world compared to this place. That really hurts to say that by I swear on Griff that it is

Secondly the place was dead as everyone was ready for Brazil v Croatia. The place for a city with 1 million people for the most part was as busy as the Hunter St Mall

Made the hotel. Check in was fun cause about 50Aussies made it here all at once. Threw bags in room and headed back down stairs.

Grabbed 4 tinnies of Cervaja Skol for $8Aud total. Dirt Cheap

Seen kick off and jumped in a taxi with 2 other Aussies as we had a piss up function in town 5 mins away.

Hotel gave 2 cabbies address and we were away. We were following and things went sour when the taxi in front went straight we went left and our non Ingles speaking cabbie had NFI where to go.

What made life even better is none of us knew the address of our hotel or where we were going as we had left them in the hotel
25 mins of insanity prevailed before we ordered the cabbie back to our hotel. On the way back we saw a large contingent in green and gold. Got out and checked Brazilians watching the game

By shear good luck we looked across the road and there was an Aussie pissing on the fence. Turns out that this was our function. The only reason we found it was some bloke was uncultured and decided to piss in public.

Anyway in we go and we get a pile of drink coupons. Get stuck into the Caprinhias and watch the game. We have missed some goals it is 40 mins in and 1-1

Watched the game with about 1000Aussies socialising and getting smashed. After the game I continued the getting smashed bit as it is still 30C +after nightfall. Jumped on the shuttle bus at 11:30 after along wait.

Our bus driver had to drop 2 other groups off before us. Problem was he had no idea where to go. It took him forever to find the 2nd hotel after missing it twice.
Then he drove round in circles with us. We went past the airport 3 times Ffs

The bloke 3 times had to get out and ask for directions. Even when we bought the thing up on Google maps he waved us away. After 90 mins of travel we finally made it to the hotel. The hotel and function place were about 5km away and even allowing for the drop offs first the whole trip should have been 15to 20mins tops

Anyway headed in and woke up my new room mate. For the next 3 weeks I am in twin share
Had introductions and a good chat until 2:30am over a couple of those $2tinnies before hitting the bed.