30th I (Catriona) woke early this morning with diarrhea. Must have eaten something dodgey yesterday! Went downstairs for breakfast of bread rolls, ham, cheese, pineapple, coffee and juice. I decided to give it a go, David had the bread rolls though. Headed back to the room and did not leave there for quite some time. We ended up watching the Pink Panther, the modern one with Steve Martin. We headed out later to get some lunch for David then back to the room for some more rest. In the afternoon we went for a huge walk along Copacabana beach and Ipanema beach. The roads in front of the beaches were closed to trafic and there were heaps of people out and about. We ended the day doing a bit of shopping for diner. 31st Met Tanja this morning (she is on our tour) and headed off on a full day tour of Rio. Our first stop was Sugarloaf mountain.
We had to take 2 cable cars to get to the top. We had a clear sunny day and the views of Rio were magnificent. We then drove by Copacabana and Ipanema beach to take some more photos. We then went into Centro (the CBD) and visited the Cathedral, which is a very modern designed building like a cone with the top chopped off. There were full stained glass windows on four `sides`. We headed up through St Teresa on the cobble stone streets to the Corcavado to see Christ the Redeemer.
Once again the views were very impressive. Had a meeting with the others on our tour and went out to dinner. Dawn from London, Laura from Oxford, Amanda from Cambridge and Marin from Norway are continuing on having started the tour in Caracus, John and Greg from toronto, Gi and Victoria from Brisbane, Sandy and Fran from Proserpine, tanja from Munich and Charlotte from Cheltanham, with Paul our Leader from UK somewhere.
We had to take 2 cable cars to get to the top. We had a clear sunny day and the views of Rio were magnificent. We then drove by Copacabana and Ipanema beach to take some more photos. We then went into Centro (the CBD) and visited the Cathedral, which is a very modern designed building like a cone with the top chopped off. There were full stained glass windows on four `sides`. We headed up through St Teresa on the cobble stone streets to the Corcavado to see Christ the Redeemer.
Once again the views were very impressive. Had a meeting with the others on our tour and went out to dinner. Dawn from London, Laura from Oxford, Amanda from Cambridge and Marin from Norway are continuing on having started the tour in Caracus, John and Greg from toronto, Gi and Victoria from Brisbane, Sandy and Fran from Proserpine, tanja from Munich and Charlotte from Cheltanham, with Paul our Leader from UK somewhere.
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