Well I'm actually back in the UK for most of it haha, but there are daily strikes and protests about the spending vs what is spent on public sector pay/ infrastructure so Rio is crazy (ok crazier) in the afternoons. Police strike last week, so they were unable to direct traffic so consequently it flowed much more smothly.
Hotel rooms are beginning to come available, lots of people cancelling trips who were put off by the thoughts of the chaos and the crime. Most looking foward to it, hoping Brasil will win, scared s( ***) less that Argentina might! Very few I know seem to have got tickets but are looking forward to the 1/2 day holidays in Rio when games at the Maracana.
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comment by bomdia (U13941)
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Drink Little
As did Jack Charlton from my fading memory, not exactly Mr Mobile, though clearly later an inspirational manager to Ireland.
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Bom dia, BomdiaAre you gonna provide daily updates from Brasil? I was thinking of going but my friends in Salvador said don't waste your money it's gonna suck. Not the football, the social conditions. It's a shame. What are the locals opinion on the tournament where you are?
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Drink Little, Happy to give some info for those coming. Manaus will be stinking hot and rooms hard to come by I believe, it's expensive even by Brasilian standards as everything is flown in, Sao Paulo has traffic that is difficult to believe, anyone going there needs to look at the journey time, double it and add 30 minutes for any journey, also do not expect taxi drivers to have even the vaguest idea where anything is, so have a map handy to show them, and learn the Portuguese for left, right and in front. Don't hail a cab in the street unless you want a long ride in the wrong direction, get one from a hotel. Belo Horizonte (Belo Rizonch) is smaller and a bit more relaxed though with less infrastructure when I was last there.
Temps in SP and Belo tend to be mid to upper 20's in winter. Brazil is expensive, drink the local beer (choppi), it's much cheaper and use Pratos restuarants where you pay the weight of the food on the plate. The steakhouses are great but really pricey.
Worst World Cup?
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posted on 30/5/14
Well I'm actually back in the UK for most of it haha, but there are daily strikes and protests about the spending vs what is spent on public sector pay/ infrastructure so Rio is crazy (ok crazier) in the afternoons. Police strike last week, so they were unable to direct traffic so consequently it flowed much more smothly.
Hotel rooms are beginning to come available, lots of people cancelling trips who were put off by the thoughts of the chaos and the crime. Most looking foward to it, hoping Brasil will win, scared s( ***) less that Argentina might! Very few I know seem to have got tickets but are looking forward to the 1/2 day holidays in Rio when games at the Maracana.
posted on 30/5/14
comment by Drink Little (U10974)
posted 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
comment by bomdia (U13941)
posted 14 hours, 37 minutes ago
Drink Little
As did Jack Charlton from my fading memory, not exactly Mr Mobile, though clearly later an inspirational manager to Ireland.
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Bom dia, BomdiaAre you gonna provide daily updates from Brasil? I was thinking of going but my friends in Salvador said don't waste your money it's gonna suck. Not the football, the social conditions. It's a shame. What are the locals opinion on the tournament where you are?
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Drink Little, Happy to give some info for those coming. Manaus will be stinking hot and rooms hard to come by I believe, it's expensive even by Brasilian standards as everything is flown in, Sao Paulo has traffic that is difficult to believe, anyone going there needs to look at the journey time, double it and add 30 minutes for any journey, also do not expect taxi drivers to have even the vaguest idea where anything is, so have a map handy to show them, and learn the Portuguese for left, right and in front. Don't hail a cab in the street unless you want a long ride in the wrong direction, get one from a hotel. Belo Horizonte (Belo Rizonch) is smaller and a bit more relaxed though with less infrastructure when I was last there.
Temps in SP and Belo tend to be mid to upper 20's in winter. Brazil is expensive, drink the local beer (choppi), it's much cheaper and use Pratos restuarants where you pay the weight of the food on the plate. The steakhouses are great but really pricey.
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