Loosen your shorts, and SIT BACK! Because another blog update is herrreeee!
Currently in BA, Argentina. But we havent spoken since FINALLY leaving Brazil and also visiting Uruguay. So lets begin....
After FINALLY leaving Rio, we spent a few nights in Sao Paulo. It was yet another city where everyone warned us to be careful etc. I dunno whats wrong with some people. One girl said its the "most dangerous city in south america". Well, I knew that was bullshit straight away. Especially compared to places like Caracas. They also said "theres nothing there, dont bother going, its ugly". When we first got there I could kinda see what they meant. We got off the bus station and straight into the train station to get the tube to our hostel. First impressions was it just looked like a bigger version of Northwick Park hospital. So imagine that. And it was BUSY! Sao Paulo in rush hour is no joke. Our hostel was kind of in the middle of no where, so we had to get the tube back and forth every day. We visited the Estadio Municipal, which is the Corinthians stadium and football museum. A lot of the guys working there liked to remind me about Corinthians beating Chelsea 1-0 in the world club cup, which was nice of them. Apart from that we just wondered around the city, and looked at graffiti (which is rated as some of the best in the world). One place which was a squat, was turned into some sort of hangout for youngsters in media, art, design etc to study and work. I dont really know what they do, but we asked to get shown around and it was pretty cool.
Got pretty bad diarrhea on the last day. We were getting a night bus to Florinapolis that night and i was pretty nervous :) Luckily it wasnt too bad. Got it out my system before we left. But I did have some troubles in the night bus toilet.... For some reason when I went to take a wee, my wee sprayed back at me :-s As you all know, when you start its hard to stop. I dont know if it had something to do with the coach moving fast, but i doubt it. I was in this tiny cubical, with my wee spraying all over the walls, mirror, on my hands, tshirt, face! I was thinking "Is this toilet TAKING THE PISS!?". Then I realized - No, It was giving it back.... -_-
Anyway, Florinapolis turned out to be our last stop in Brazil. It was recommended by a few people, and we could see why. We got a hostel RIGHT on the beach. Only problem was we had pretty shitty weather whilst we were there. The beaches were nice, and really quiet (maybe because of the weather). We had a walk on the beach on our first day, and there was one or two joggers, and stray dogs playing in the waves. Was nice. The guy who ran the hostel was a bit of a stoner. Theres pros and cons to having a stoner for a hostel owner. The cons were we never trusted much of anything he said. We didnt get our laundry back until about 40mins before we had to get the bus out of there on the last day. When we asked where the hell our laundry was, he was just like "She was slower because of the rain. Its crazy weather!" With a smile like its some cool phenomenon and we hadnt just spent about 100quid on bus tickets leaving in an hours time. On the plus side he handed out a lot of weed. I got hulk smashed and watched Avatar on a tiny tv. Its cool when your high. But I couldnt keep still because I thought there was an ice cream bowl by my foot, and I was nervous I would knock it over.... Funny thing was - I hadnt had ice cream all day.... :-l
We got pretty good weather on our last day in Florinapolis, then we got a 24hr bus to Montevideo, Uruguay. 24hrs in nothing to us nowadays. Uruguay was a really nice country from what we saw of it. Weather was a lot more bearable than Brazils. I had no perceptions on what Uruguay would be like to be honest. Its biggest downfall was the BANKS! Agh!! We withdrew money fine on the first day, but on the second day, NOTHING! We walked from our hostel about 5 miles down the coast to the city center as it was nice. But when we got there we spent ALL DAY trying EVERY BANK in the bloody city to get money. It eventually got dark and we had no money. So had to walk all the way back to the hostel because we couldnt afford a bus, and we managed to get a few coins together to buy biscuits for dinner. We got back and tried Cats card from our room, still failed. An American guy lent us some money to get a bus to the station where we first withdrew from, fail. FML! Luckily we brought my Natwest Justin Case, and withdrew some money on that, with a shit exchange rate and charge, but oh well, we had money. We got a McDonalds at midnight to celebrate and the next day we moved on.
My legs are henchhhh!
Colonia Del Sacramento was our 2nd and final stop of our short Uruguay visit. Was a REALLY nice place. Cobbled streets, old churches, light houses, all that stuff. Visited an abandoned bull ring one day. Broke into it, and it was really cool. Everyone there drank maté tea. Its weird stuff. Its just some leaves in a pot that they pour hot water into and sip. But you have to carry the pot and the flask around all day like a dick, so i dont get it :-s We had problems withdrawing money there too. I used my Natwest again a few times and withdrew US dollars. I heard you can sell dollars in Argentina for CRAZY good exchange rates, so we didnt care about the charges and exchange rates at that point, we just took the risk. Ill explain how that went in my next episode ;)
Overall it was a really good stay. Photos will be up soon.
For now ill leave it there.
Keep your shorts tight, and your mind right.
If I dont see you through the week, Ill see you through the windooowwww xxx
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