Rio De Janeiro
My g/f took me there for my 40th - for two weeks. This was a week too long.

Once you've done the beach, seen a football game, The Jesus and Sugar-loaf Mountain, it gets pretty boring very quickly. The museums, galleries and nightclubs (lots of which are full of prostitutes) are crap. No samba to speak of most of the year.

The Air France flights were the worst I've been on and we had the rudest Italian in the world behind us for a good 11 hours on the way back - think Austin Power's Fat Barsteward in both looks and behaviour.

And when it rains?, Well, my g/f put it best: "It's like Blackpool minus the amusements!".

Still, at least I didn't get mugged or robbed, but the pathetic attempts to scam us wore pretty thin.

Holiday of a lifetime, it was supposed to be . . .
(geedubya, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 1:16, 2 replies)

You should have...
....GONE ON A BEEF AND COCAINE BENDER.

Surely?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 9:55, closed)

I feel your
pain... except I was there for 13 motherfucking months.

Its a shit hole. Aside from what you mentioned you could also try swimming in the sea off copacabana (and going blind and deaf from the pollution as an acquaintance of mine did), get extravagently mugged, try to avoid extensive racism, sexual molestation, corrupt drug dealing police.

And at the end of it all realise that every night you come home from work to a shitty apartment and you sit there drinking gin and wishing you were in Slough.

On a brighter note, if you get the chance go to the Iguacu Falls (about 2-3 days should do it what with all the trips) and then to Buenos Aires... so much better to do as a holiday.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 14:29, closed)