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Got up Saturday 5th July 2014 at 5:40am. Showered grabbed the gear and headed out the door.
Today would be my 12th and final game of the World Cup. Had a 9:00am flight out of Belo for Brasilia for the Argentina v Belgium clash.

Got the taxi out the front of hotel and was on my way R$120 to airport. Can’t complain as it is easy a 30-40km trip.
Strapped in and we were on our way. An hour later we were landing in Brasilia.

Got off to the most glorious site in the world. The Budweiser Girls were in town so that means FREE BEER
Grabbed a couple to start the day.

Headed outside **** Me. Arriving the same time for the France Nigeria match Monday and todays match what a contrast. Easy to pick up a taxi or bus Monday. Not today. People everywhere.

After sussing the bus and taxi situation out went the taxi option

Spent my time in the queue talking to a Belgian bloke who had his kids running around trying to hock a spare ticket. He had a ticket on half way 5rows back.

Had paid $US800 for 4 of the things but his wife couldn’t get to Brazil. Being that it is illegal to sell over cost price $US330in Brazil that is why he had the kids running around.

Turns out he actually got the tickets off an online site like EBay. The name on the ticket matches the name of a FIFA official who got them for free and has then hocked them for profit

Cabbie for some reason was hell bent on dropping me as close as he could despite the traffic. Eventually got him to stop. $R50 damage

Made the trek of about 2km to the ground walked in and reunited myself with my dear friend Beer. Had a chat to a couple of Belgium and some Poms before taking my seat.

As for the game cracking goal by Higuain with the first time volley on the turn to win it. Belgium had the better of the game Argies defended grimly. Belgium just didn’t have the class players to break the Argies down.

Atmosphere was fantastic once again numerous scuffles involving the Aries and Brazilians.
It really is bizarre. Small pocket of fans for Belgium. Pile of foreigners with no affiliation either way. 30k of Argies **** knows how they got so many tickets and 20k of Brazilians.

Usually a football game has 2sides to cheer for but for every big name team Brazillians believe can win the Copa Mundial there are 3sides being cheered for.

It is actually rather embarrassing the way the locals carry on. The hospitality and warmth they display is first class. As soon as they get to a football game they lose the plot.

Knowing full well they were buying tickets to a game involving teams other than Brazil sure turn up cheer the team you want to win but the day is for the fans of the competing nations not about them

Be the equivalent of 5k of Jets fans turning up to Gypos V Smurfs game and singing about Griffo and Jets all day. Wrong place wrong time and lame

Anyway full time came and went. About 500m from the ground there are some markets had a browse but didn’t buy.
Had some good stuff but timber which would only be confiscated upon arrival in Australia. Already have one timber product I am planning on getting through hidden in the luggage.

Being that for some reason I had booked a flight at 10pm and it was 3:30pm decided to go check out some of the Martian monuments. Went for a 5km stroll past a heap of them before turning around and arriving back at the bus station.

For some reason the buses had disappeared and private illegal taxis were bowling up. Gave it a miss as didn’t feel comfortable safe etc

Headed up to the shopping centre and grabbed a taxi. On the way to the rank met an Argy bloke who wanted to split a fare. He negotiated a fixed price of R$40 so R$20each

At this point noticed the lack of Portuguese Spanish has probably cost me a bit with the inability to negotiate.

Had a good chat in Broken Spanish Broken English Broken Portuguese with him to the airport.

At the airport I gave him my tour jumper

Wasn’t the worse jumper quality but as the tour group had made the jumper in a colour that represents the Gypos and it didn’t have enough Australia about it and it had far too much about the tour group with their name all over the place it wasn’t setting foot in Newsy

No luck getting an earlier flight tonight. Settled into watch the Dutch V Costa Rica game got the lasr 20mins plus extra time and pens.

One of the things with the WC you go to a game in the flesh you miss other games on TV and throw in travel plus there is so much to see and do gee do you miss some football.

Anyway Dutch triumph is good for Aussie football as it reinforces that the Dutch way we are going down can work for us in time

Was regretting giving the jumper away as the temp had dropped.

After the game headed into the terminal and had another serve of the Spaghetti Marinara I had the other day here.

Finally the call came to board. Must say Brasilia is a fantastic city at night by air. Due to the structured symmetry about it the lights look amazing.

Settled in and had a 45min nap only to be disturbed by the bloke sitting next to me waking me up to tell me we had landed and to get up.

Staggered out grabbed the bus into town and made it back to the hotel by 1am