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The Travel Thread - Second Destination
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The Kid
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Having a 1 year old baby does that to you! Plus i went to bed at 2am the previous night...so was not good being woken up at 6.15am.......
Kids are bad for your health. But they do make you appreciate the opportunities you get to travel. And i'm defo going back to Oman for a holiday in Oct or Nov.
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please tell me about Brunei while you're at it too, i'm going there in October!!!
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You should go visit Fengtau!
You should go visit Fengtau!
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Yep, you can booze in hotels (which are where all the bars and restaurants are). Oman is much more chilled than Dubai and more beautiful (loads of mountains). Also the locals love Brits. Weather is good.
Never been. But the Sultan of Brunei used to have a superyacht called "Tits", and the two tenders were called "Nipple 1" and "Nipple 2".
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Sounds like my kinda royalty :D
Sounds like my kinda royalty :D
Nice photos RA, I take it that's the Maracaná stadium in one of them? What game did you see? By the Torcida Jovem Flá banner, I'm guessing Flamengo?
Unlucky to jacked in Ipanema, mate, but when you mentioned the word "favela" I thought you'd ended up in Complexo Alemao or Nova Holanda. I was planning on giving you a one to ten rating on how lucky to be alive you are right now, if that was the case. Incidentally, how did you broach the bribe thing? Did they just come right out with it or did you mention it? Sounds like a set up to me.
I can relate to what you're saying about falling in love with Brazil, it really is that kind of place. It's been far too long since I've been there but this thread's giving me itchy feet. I think a trip over to Brazil could be in the offing. I really need to catch up on my Piranha fishing.
Unlucky to jacked in Ipanema, mate, but when you mentioned the word "favela" I thought you'd ended up in Complexo Alemao or Nova Holanda. I was planning on giving you a one to ten rating on how lucky to be alive you are right now, if that was the case. Incidentally, how did you broach the bribe thing? Did they just come right out with it or did you mention it? Sounds like a set up to me.
I can relate to what you're saying about falling in love with Brazil, it really is that kind of place. It's been far too long since I've been there but this thread's giving me itchy feet. I think a trip over to Brazil could be in the offing. I really need to catch up on my Piranha fishing.
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good to see you home safe n sound RA.i read in the irish indo the other day that 2 irish people got busted tryin to bribe some coppers in Rio after 1 guy was caught with 4 deals of coke.glad it was not you.look forward to a few more photos.
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just found the paper=WED 25th and the 2 irish people were arrested "near Rio de janeiros famous Ipanema beach"...it sounds like the dealers sell to forigners then tell the coppers.
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D'OH! looks like my usual geography skills failed me, cos i seemed to remember Brunei was in the middle east somewhere. i see now that it's actually next to Malaysia. 8)
i could have sworn you said you'd been there. perhaps it was just you asking me about it. i say again: D'OH!!!
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yeah well in ipanema at the right hand top corner theres this square with a park bit in the middle, and a few bars all around it.. we were in a bar and i was chatting to a bunch of brazilians (they were all really nice and friendly, fellas and girls)
anyway i was saying how id love a spliff and asked if anyone could sort any, and one guy said he could.. so i said cool lets go get some, the two of us walked around some dodgey corners and ended up at the bottom of this hill, took a few mins for yer man to sort it (after much delegation in portuguese with the local street dealer)
two mins after we got it the police pulled up behind us, jumped out of the car shouting, i fucked the ganja on the floor, they searched us before finding it on the floor, the next thing i know we are both hauled into the back of the car and are driving around rio really fast, thru all these tunnels etc, the cops didnt speak any english so i was just sitting in the back wondering wtf (i had also left my missus in the pub in ipanema and told her i was nipping out for 2 mins) - we were staying in copacabana and she didnt know where i was gone, how to get home or anything!)
eventually the police dropped me back to irish pub to get her (thru the translation of the brazilian guy i was with when we got caught) they then dropped me and her to the hostel in copacabana to get bank cards, she stayed in hostel (obviously as she wasnt arrested) and i went back to the police car.. they then took me on another long spin around mad areas that i had never seen before when i was under the impression they were simply bringing me to an ATM... after round 20 mins of driving around since getting the cards they pulled up at a citi bank back in ipanema and proceeded to let me empty my bank of the limit for the day (1800 reais, or 700 euro)
they then flagged me a taxi, gave me taxi fare out of my own money, gave me the weed back and said goodbye.
wouldnt mind, but the weed was fucking shite brick weed, still smoked it.. ended up getting better weed around a week later off some rastas in a street block party in lapa. we hung around lapa alot at night towards the end of the carnival as we were staying up the hill in santa theresa and the parties in lapa were always just fucking mental and non stop.. the only bad thing about carnival in rio (and lapa espicially) is the next morning when the sun comes up, and the stench of urine on every fuckin street path and alley, even the main city centre areas all stink, youd thing the city would pay for more portaloos during big events like carnival but then again you must remember that brazil is still a second world country and they seem to spend money elsewhere.......)
ps yeah, that pic is from flamengo and botafogo
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Yeah, I would say the cops were definitely working with the dealers. Next time, let the Brazilian guy go on his own! Must have been shit scary for you and your missus, though. Still, it's a good anecdote now instead of anything worse.
What did they give you your weed in? Generally, most dealers that are selling to people from the "asfalto" (ie. rich folks, not favela dwellers) will give you your product in some sort of less than obvious packaging so you've at least got a chance to get rid of it surreptitiously if you get stopped by the police. Like where I lived (Curitiba) if you were just buying a little bit, instead of getting it altogether in a bag or sellophane or something like we would here, you would get your weed ground up and wrapped in loads of little bits of paper (like receipts, rizla, atm printouts, bits of newspaper etc) so you could leave it in your pocket or drop it on the ground (if you had time) and it would just look like some random bits of litter rather than a load of drugs. I've seen this same thing in Manaus and Caracas too. I guess either the police are already onto this in Rio so there's no point doing it or your man had a vested interest in you getting busted (and yes, I'm a cunt for not mentioning this before you went, but I only just remembered it after reading your post!)
I'd agree that most of the weed over there's fairly weak, but I kind of prefer the high you get off it. It's a bit less edgy than the skunk we get in Europe. Incidentally, did you find their skins over there really shit? Most of them don't even have folds or gum, IIRC, and a lot of people used to use newspaper to skin up with (nasty) After a few weeks of that, coming across a guy selling Red King Size Rizla (which have the tag line "No. 1 in Africa" on the front in Brazil, for some reason) was a godsend.
As for the smell of piss thing, I wouldn't say that's unique to Brazil, you should try walking around parts of Lisbon or Madrid at the same time of day and it smells fairly similar! Maybe it's originally an Iberian thing.
Btw, did you get any coke in the end?
What did they give you your weed in? Generally, most dealers that are selling to people from the "asfalto" (ie. rich folks, not favela dwellers) will give you your product in some sort of less than obvious packaging so you've at least got a chance to get rid of it surreptitiously if you get stopped by the police. Like where I lived (Curitiba) if you were just buying a little bit, instead of getting it altogether in a bag or sellophane or something like we would here, you would get your weed ground up and wrapped in loads of little bits of paper (like receipts, rizla, atm printouts, bits of newspaper etc) so you could leave it in your pocket or drop it on the ground (if you had time) and it would just look like some random bits of litter rather than a load of drugs. I've seen this same thing in Manaus and Caracas too. I guess either the police are already onto this in Rio so there's no point doing it or your man had a vested interest in you getting busted (and yes, I'm a cunt for not mentioning this before you went, but I only just remembered it after reading your post!)
I'd agree that most of the weed over there's fairly weak, but I kind of prefer the high you get off it. It's a bit less edgy than the skunk we get in Europe. Incidentally, did you find their skins over there really shit? Most of them don't even have folds or gum, IIRC, and a lot of people used to use newspaper to skin up with (nasty) After a few weeks of that, coming across a guy selling Red King Size Rizla (which have the tag line "No. 1 in Africa" on the front in Brazil, for some reason) was a godsend.
As for the smell of piss thing, I wouldn't say that's unique to Brazil, you should try walking around parts of Lisbon or Madrid at the same time of day and it smells fairly similar! Maybe it's originally an Iberian thing.
Btw, did you get any coke in the end?
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oh yeah the dealers were defo working with the cops. we saw the cops with them before we approached them, stupid i know but we were drunk. the police fucked off and we went up to them then.
the cunts gave me the weed in POXY cling film, the min the police let me go and gave it back,i took it out of the cling film in case i got busted again when i was walking back to the hostel, i then stashed it in a communal area in the hostel for safe keeping, the missus was not happy at all with the whole sequence of events, it put a dampener on the next day or two pretty much... wankers
the skins we had were decent enuff, still have em... jumbo skins with a little brazilian flag on them, ill keep it as a souviener..
as for the piss thing, seriously man.. literally EVERY street in the whole of lapa was fucking humming of piss 24/7, puddles of it everywhere, was fucking vile...
didnt get any coke, could have, loads of people we met were sniffing it and whatnot but i had got busted with weed, couldnt afford any more bribes and to be honest, it was bad enuff coping with a hangover in that humidity and heat (no AC in most placed we stayed) and cold water was hard find in a room with no fridge, so i could only imagine what a coke come down would have been like... plus im more of a stoner than a coke head anyway so didnt bother me not getting any.
the cunts gave me the weed in POXY cling film, the min the police let me go and gave it back,i took it out of the cling film in case i got busted again when i was walking back to the hostel, i then stashed it in a communal area in the hostel for safe keeping, the missus was not happy at all with the whole sequence of events, it put a dampener on the next day or two pretty much... wankers
the skins we had were decent enuff, still have em... jumbo skins with a little brazilian flag on them, ill keep it as a souviener..
as for the piss thing, seriously man.. literally EVERY street in the whole of lapa was fucking humming of piss 24/7, puddles of it everywhere, was fucking vile...
didnt get any coke, could have, loads of people we met were sniffing it and whatnot but i had got busted with weed, couldnt afford any more bribes and to be honest, it was bad enuff coping with a hangover in that humidity and heat (no AC in most placed we stayed) and cold water was hard find in a room with no fridge, so i could only imagine what a coke come down would have been like... plus im more of a stoner than a coke head anyway so didnt bother me not getting any.
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a little clip of the moments leading up to me running off the side of a 600 meter cliff in rio de janeiro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwHu-nkR5Ns
need to get full video up soon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwHu-nkR5Ns
need to get full video up soon!
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Anyone ever been on a placement/volunteering type thing abroad where you get a free extended holiday in return for doing something "useful" for the local population? Some random recruitment company emailed me some stuff about it and it's set me thinking. Might be a good life experience in 6 months when I've got some cash to my name...
Apologies if half the thread is about such things, I've not really read it
Apologies if half the thread is about such things, I've not really read it
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Most volunteer programs require you to pay at least the ones with flashy websites online that come up on google. There are some where the placements are free but you still have to pay your way - flights, accomodation, food etc.
If you've found something that allows you to go abroad, have a free holiday and do something useful you're onto a winner.
Forward me the email please I'm interested.
If you've found something that allows you to go abroad, have a free holiday and do something useful you're onto a winner.
Forward me the email please I'm interested.
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I didn't research it really I just assumed they'd not be expecting recent graduates to have the cash for that sort of thing. Sucks if they're charging you for accomodation as well as working you hard.