Finally having to leave Rio…!!!
Ooohh jjjeee…..the last time I wrote here on my wonderful blog was BEFORE CARNIVAL….!!Ggggggg…..that is aaaaagggggeeesss ago... almost 2 months now…WWWOOOOWWW…!!
My time here in Rio has been flying by…well… and got extended and extended and extended once again…. Until right now… today… I really HAD to leave… and am actually sitting right now on the bus back to Buenos Aires…
Aaahhh – este Crucero del Norte bus is wonderful….!! Ssssooo comodo…!! Huge Coche Cama seats…. If you’ve never been on a long-distance bus in Argentina - or anywhere in South America before - those are like business class seats on a plane that you can fold back and convert into beds…. Wonderful… ☺
Y bueno…. Soooo my time in Rio was nice enough in the end that I stayed 4 weeks longer than I had planned originally…
CARNIVAL was totally amazing…!! Parties, fiestas, blocos, concerts on the streets, na praia, nas pracas, clubs and bars constantly and everywhere for almost a week….
Also the official Winner’s Parade that we went to see with Filip and Melanie at the Sambodromo was amazing…!!
We had negotiated some pretty good seats for VERY reasonable rates and actually got to see this Champions Parade from the Sector where most fans of the Samba School Mangueira were sitting…. All Brazilians….great…. not touristy at all…!! ☺
And the presentation of the winning Samba school BEIJA-FLOR was….WWWOOOWW… fantastic…!! So beautiful everything… so many details…. In the costumes, the huge themed and decorated trucks….!! Amazing…!!
We had seen the dancers and bateria of Beija-Flor a couple of weeks before when they were doing a practice-run on Avenida Atlantica…. And Marcelo and I had been dancing all night long in the rain… hahaha… ;)
That was fun already…!! But to see the final presentation and outcome of the year-long hard work and practice… outra coisa…!! It was great…!! Wanna come back again for this next year… ;)
Also had a really nice time with Miguel and Nacho - 2 of Joaco’s friends from Rosario who came to visit for a couple of weeks in FEB - and took them around to some nice places in Rio…. Just too bad they don’t like salsa….jajajj… ;)
With Jesica, Nahuel and Joaco we had done some other nice day- and weekend trips in FEB…. to Paraty, Itacuraca and some tropical islands, Jeep-Tour in the Tijuca forest, la Cidade de Samba.… all really nice too….
At the beginning of March my friend JoseLuis from Lima finally made it to Rio….after he never got here during carnival…. Now he came with some other friends…. We took them to CUBA LIBRE - a salsa place in Ipanema - the night they arrived…. And then met them again in Buzios over the weekend….
Aaahhh Buzios…. That was probably the most wonderful weekend of all my time in Rio this year so far…
I finally got to use the free flight from RIO to BUZIOS that I had won at a function last year…. And my great colleague Simone had also arranged 2 nights at the beautiful Pousada VILA BOA VIDA for me… Flavi could only get there on Saturday, but then we had a wonderful time on a few of the 17 different beaches of this beautiful peninsula…. And also with JoseLuis and his friends in the Rua das Pedras at night…. Some great Caipirinhas there… ;)
Y bueno… e verdade – ever since I met Flavio at the beginning of March my time in Rio had been a lot more fun…. ☺
Finally a great Salsa-dancer and very sweet guy (whenever he wants to be….jajajja…) to hang out with, spend some amazing and very fun times with… ;)
i.e. great nights dancing in Lapa, Ipanema, Ilha dos Pescadores y la casa de Mari… having Acai and Pizza in Leblon…. Sleeping on the beach and watching some super-beautiful sunrises over Arpoador and Ipanema beaches… y bueno… el finde en Buzios… etc. etc. ;)
Sssoooo…. I stayed in Rio till today… met some more, very nice people… danced MUCH more than before… got to know some other and MUCH BETTER salsa places…. And dancers…. Who are now great friends… Thanks guys…!!
And all this made it much, much harder to leave Rio…. Much harder than I would have ever imagined…
Pero bueno… I have so many nice things to look forward to now in April… and if I hadn’t left now, none of them would have worked out…
After this weekend in Buenos Aires, I will be flying to Mendoza with Jesica on Monday…. Stay there for 3 nights… then continue on to Santiago de Chile, Puerto Varas, Puerto Montt, Bariloche and El Calafate….
I will have one more day in Buenos Aires before I gotta fly home to Germany at the end of the month for Beate’s wedding… ☺
Uuuiii….this bus is shaking too much now…. Gotta stop typing… jajaj… bbbuuuuuttt…. Well…. It’s tough to put 2 months pf my life in Rio into 2 A4 pages…
Mais, melhor que nada… at least a few updates on here again… ;)
Hugs… und bis bald… xxx
Astrid
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