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Brazil
Posted: 24 Jul 2022 16:39
by Retire1day
Wife and son here today, 37th floor in the Hilton, top floor overlooking Copacabana beach in Rio. Could do with a window cleaner I think! I will put some more photos on here as they are doing a lot of travelling over the next three weeks. I should add that beach view room for 2 people is £100 a night. Less than half the price I paid for La Meliá in Alicante.
Uber from airport to Hotel, 23.9 Kms was £10!
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Re: Brazil
Posted: 24 Jul 2022 16:53
by Retire1day
I did look up the murder rate of Rio a while ago and I think the police alone kill about 1,000 a year in Rio.
Re: Brazil
Posted: 24 Jul 2022 19:41
by Retire1day
These monkeys are free in the Hills around Rio.
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Re: Brazil
Posted: 24 Jul 2022 19:42
by Retire1day
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Hotel pool
Re: Brazil
Posted: 25 Jul 2022 08:15
by gail
I went to Rio in 1977...a never to be repeated experience. Beautiful place, but so such crime even in those days, I had my bag snatched and had to pay a taxi driver, to pay the police, to get a statement for insurance. Even the taxis didn't stop at traffic lights in case they were attacked.
Re: Brazil
Posted: 25 Jul 2022 13:52
by jimny1
Retire1day wrote: 24 Jul 2022 16:39
Wife and son here today, 37th floor in the Hilton, top floor overlooking Copacabana beach in Rio. Could do with a window cleaner I think! I will put some more photos on here as they are doing a lot of travelling over the next three weeks. I should add that beach view room for 2 people is £100 a night. Less than half the price I paid for La Meliá in Alicante.
Uber from airport to Hotel, 23.9 Kms was £10!
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This is where my wife was born R,in rio, she had an apartment just behind the beach , i stayed there for 6 months when i first met her 12 years ago, and got to see a lot of brasil including the amazon, i have a picture of me with a tarantula on my chest that was a pet of one of the locals , i will try to find and post it
Re: Brazil
Posted: 25 Jul 2022 14:01
by Retire1day
My Wife is from Brazil as well, not Rio though. You obviously made it through the six months then. Still here and all that! Did you enjoy living there? I think my son does wonder if he would have a good life living there as a doctor one day, they normally have a good lifestyle over there.
Re: Brazil
Posted: 25 Jul 2022 17:39
by jimny1
Retire1day wrote: 25 Jul 2022 14:01
My Wife is from Brazil as well, not Rio though. You obviously made it through the six months then. Still here and all that! Did you enjoy living there? I think my son does wonder if he would have a good life living there as a doctor one day, they normally have a good lifestyle over there.
My wife is a journalist R, and she had a good lifestyle there, then met me
Yes i enjoyed my time there
You just have to know where to go and not to go, and which buses to take that are not carrying an assailant
We have friends coming over from brasil this week,he is a doctor of fenam, yes they are very well paid
Re: Brazil
Posted: 25 Jul 2022 17:57
by Retire1day
"My wife is a journalist R, and she had a good lifestyle there, then met me
"
Sounds a bit like me. Took Wife down to my level!
She told me she was interviewed by a TV channel today regarding tourism and she was telling them what she is doing and where she is going.
Re: Brazil
Posted: 26 Jul 2022 13:20
by Retire1day
This is a photo of a photo but they went on this train yesterday, a bit close to the edge looking at that!
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