So with the World Cup well and truly over we were ready to take on Rio de Janeiro for the second time but closer in to do all of the touristy things people associate with Rio. We stayed in quite a nice part of Gloria close to the centre of Rio, but it still looked […]
Maracanã Madness
I was pretty gutted that I didn’t sort myself out in good time and get some tickets to the World Cup 2014. So with that in mind I got the chance to go to the Maracanã where the World Cup Final was played just 2 weeks earlier to see a local derby game in the […]
Argentinians in Full Song
So it was the final of the World Cup 2014 and we had made it down onto the Copacabana for the festivities 4 hours early! There were over 100,000 Argentinians on the beach for the final so I really can’t begin to image how many people there were in total. An amazing day in the […]
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Well, it wasn’t quite central Rio, but it was technically Rio de Janeiro. Recreio dos Bandeirantes was the name of the place and it was about an hour and a half away from the centre. This visit to Rio de Janeiro was all about the final week of the World Cup 2014. We had decided […]