Rio

Arrived in Rio Saturday but alas we were bagless!!poor orla was stuck in her "beautiful" travelling ensemble - which comprised of plastic pink shoes, pink trousers which looked like pajamas and a moderately respectable black top. If you wish to view this wonderful collaberation please look at all photos dated for first 3 days !!!!

Anyway in Rio, our hotel is both classy and comfortable, Orla as you can imagine blended in seemlessly with the classical furniture and art nevo decorations. As for Rio - its a great city (and somewhat safer than we expected), day one we went to the Copacabana which is nice but generally like any beach youd find along the costa del sol - so without Barry Manolo id say the beach wouldnt be the tourist trap it is!!next we got a cable car to the sugar loaf where the view was amazing (see pics) and we flukily arrived for sunset so it was great!!









Next morning we panned by the pool in the hope that our bags would arrive but alas it was not to be so we headed off on a tour of the Maracana (massive football stadium for the girls, like myself who would not have known this!!) - i do fear ro is bringing me on a sports tour of the world!!!Pre-maracana our tour guide brought us to an exclusive movable bar!!haha - this consisted of a man with a cart full of ice and beer who we had to follow every time the police got near!!!gas as all the irish were sticking closely to the beers!!met up with some culchies they were great craic even if it was easier to understand the brazilians (with no english). The 7 of us managed to get very drunk and engage in a drunken sing song on the bus back, as most of you have heard me sing the best way to describe the ordeal for the other passengers is to say that I wasn't the worst !!

Now we best be off, we have to organise a 23 hr bus journey to Igassu falls and go see Jesus.

Hope everyone is well

PS: Thanks to Ro and Nead for help with the baggage locatingxxx