Mfks World Cup diary

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Got up Saturday 28th May 2014 at 6:00am. Absolutely chomping at the bit and excited at what the day would bring watching the locals play in a WC being cheered on by 50k of their crazy fans.

First up cold shower. This hotel I am at is crap.

Nothing works they charge a fortune and they are gonna get hammered on every internet review site I can find as soon as I find some internet as there is none here

Dressed and ready to go I head down for a cab. Cab get me to Santos Dumont for the sum of R$40 a lot cheaper than the thief charged me yesterday.

Head in check in and find out there is small delay’s due to light fog around the airport. I am barely able to see the other side of the airfield when I arrived. With a 9am flight plenty of time to get there.

8am arrived and still no activity

9am arrives and planes are able to take off

9:30am and am starting to worry.

If I ain’t on a plane by 11am I ain’t going to the game. Takes an hour flight to get there an hour to get to ground by bus.

Just having a look around the airfield notice that all the planes are departing but none are arriving. Bit of a worry that as if no planes are landing there ain’t one to sit in.

10am 11am pass as I am still in the airport getting more and more frustrated. By 11:30resigned to my fate I join them any others walking out.

The whole thing was a farce 5 plane loads of passengers bound for Belo Horizante are left stranded in Rio unable to get to the match.

What makes it even worse is it is 35C outside and just a haze in the air.

Am absolutely dumb founded as to how planes can take off but are unable to land. Add in the conditions ain’t that bad.

FFS planes can navigate in the dark at night any fly through clouds
GPS mother****ers

Absolutely disgusted at having a ticket that cost US $220 absolutely worthless I walk out the door throw a bit of paper on the ground and am then stopped by some overzealous local official


Who then hits me with a R$151fine for littering. As the bastard is writing the thing I can’t help but notice the 250k of cigarette butts on the ground. I take it that I am probably the only one to get fined. To add insult to injury
Anyway I took the ticket swore at him in Greek Croatian and Macedonian and smiled and walked back inside.

Went and sorted a refund after 60mins of queuing as there was ä long line as 3-4hours worth of flight build up were bailing paperwork was completed and I was told refund in 30-40days.

Went outside airport again and due to the upcoming Brazil game there was a shortage of buses and taxis. Add in the 5-10k of people wanting one and I could see it wasn’t my day.

Took off walking and found my way to the Metro. Got on with NFI which way I was going as the stations had names I was unfamiliar with.

Whilst travelling I could feel something on my leg I just brushed it away inadvertently like you would a fly in the face. Next thing you knew Holy muther****er.

Whatever it was had bitten and it hurt like a bitch. Look down to see some type of wasp hornet like critter. Knocked it to the ground and the last thing it felt was its head going through its arse as my Kmart specials delivered the last rites

First initial though was this could be a bit of trouble. I had no idea what the ****ing thing was and whether it was poisonous harmful deadly etc. For all I knew my first trip on the Rio metro may have been my last.
Couple of prayers to Griff and 15 mins later all was good as the pain finally subsided.

Got off when a large crowd did and was relieved to find myself back in Copacabana. From there I was able to walk back to the hotel.
Walked in to find the score at 1-1

Absolutely fuming at my day I was stopped by a bloke I knew who asked me how the day was and why wasn’t I in Belo. After filling him in he told me he had scored a free ticket to the Maracana R16 Colombia v Uruguay clash this morning.

About now the blood had reached fever pitch at his luck my misfortune and I couldn’t be ****ed watching the game.

Headed down to the beach and had a swim. Even seeing some Brazilian stunner get dumped and have her grade a 10/10tits on full display 10feet from us as her costume was ripped away done little to brighten my mood.

Staggered back from the beach in time for the penalty shootout. Brazil triumph made the whole days farce just sting that little bit more. Would have been pandemonium in the stadium yet I was stuck in Rio.

Good news is in this country beer is cheap and plentifully available and you can walk the streets doing it. So I grabbed a couple and headed for a walk .

Ended up in Leblon after trudging through Copacabana and Ipanema. Must have been about a 10-15km walk. Once in Leblon which is the dearest real estate per m2 in the Southern Hemisphere it was time to turn back. Reason being after it is a Favela

Headed back to Ipanema jumped on the Metro. Not long later and I was back in Copacabana. Found a bar and had a few drinks to try and lighten the mood.

I tried to remind myself that on days like today it could be actually be worse


I could have been born on the Central Coast