General Info

Here are two websites that provide business news and general news about Brazil.

[url]http://brazil-weekly.com/[/url]

[url]http://riotimesonline.com/[/url]

[QUOTE=Smooth Slim]Here are two websites that provide business news and general news about Brazil.

[url]http://brazil-weekly.com/[/url]

[url]http://riotimesonline.com/[/url][/QUOTE]

Good info. Thanks

[QUOTE=Trickbaby]I met a girl from recife and am thinking of flying to meet her. Usually my flights to Colombia are cheap from Miami, however... WOW!! I got some sticker shock at the cost of flights to recife. what airlines serve Brasil from Mimi or Orlando anyone know? expedia was talking about flights that lasted 2 days and multiple stops crazy shit.[/QUOTE]
Try buying separate tickets on expedia. Example: Buy one from Miami to Sao Paulo or Rio round trip and another SP/Rio-Recife round trip. Make sure you buy them well in advance. Also, keep in mind that generally you will pay less for a flight that has a connection than for a direct flight.

I don't know if your sole purpose of the trip is to meet someone or not. But if it is, I would not recommend you go only in hopes of meeting that one person. The chances of them not showing up is heavily on the unlikely side. Another alternative is to buy your ticket to SP/Rio and buy her a ticket from Recife to SP/Rio. That way if you find out she was not as reliable as you thought, you can get a portion of your money back and will not feel as if you have wasted your time and/or money because you will still be in one of the best mongering cities in the world.

[QUOTE=Trickbaby]I met a girl from recife and am thinking of flying to meet her. Usually my flights to Colombia are cheap from Miami, however... WOW!! I got some sticker shock at the cost of flights to recife. what airlines serve Brasil from Mimi or Orlando anyone know? expedia was talking about flights that lasted 2 days and multiple stops crazy shit.[/QUOTE]IF you're already grumbling and taking pause over the cost of a flight and you haven't even gotten to Brazil yet, this doesn't bode well for you. Brasilians are a pretty free-spending people when they have the cash. And, when they don't, there are always friends to rely on.

Do I have to buy their beer?

Can I bring my own beer in a small cooler bag to the beach,
or will I likely be chased off? This goes for hooker beach and
places in Ipanema.

Thanks

[QUOTE=Koolkid]Do I have to buy their beer?

Can I bring my own beer in a small cooler bag to the beach,
or will I likely be chased off? This goes for hooker beach and
places in Ipanema.

Thanks[/QUOTE]

Yes, you must.

[QUOTE=Koolkid]Do I have to buy their beer?

Can I bring my own beer in a small cooler bag to the beach,
or will I likely be chased off? This goes for hooker beach and
places in Ipanema.

Thanks[/QUOTE]
You can buy your beer from whoever you want.
Of course you can also bring a cooler bag if you want.

I always buy a beach chair when I arrive in Rio. It becomes cheaper that way, and I don't have to sit in other peoples sweat. I stay so close to the beach so it's no problem bringing it.

I have my favourite barraca where I always stay. I buy my drinks from them and in return I use their showers.

When going to the beach with my GF she usually brings a cooler bag stuffed with cold beers, sandwiches etc.

The beach vendors in front of Othon Palace are a bunch of worthless scumbags who lives on ripping off gringos. They might try to invent their own rules. I would never spend a single centavo on those lowlifes.

[QUOTE=Sperto]
The beach vendors in front of Othon Palace are a bunch of worthless scumbags who lives on ripping off gringos. They might try to invent their own rules. I would never spend a single centavo on those lowlifes.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, through the years I have sat there a few times but last time was about 2001. I never spend a dime there but all those scumbags still remember my name even though I don't have a hard one.

When I was in Rio last walking down Copa I happen to stop in front of HO beach on the sidewalk just to look at the beach to see if anything interesting is there. An old woman tried to sell me something but I told her no thank you then she calls over one of these scum bags and says to him, look a potential customer, he just said no that's Bob and he waived and said Hi. They don't bother me anymore.

The quality on ho beach, in front of Othon Palace, is ridiculously low nowadays. The only amusement there is the crazy black dog running around chasing pigeons.

[QUOTE=Sperto]The quality on ho beach, in front of Othon Palace, is ridiculously low nowadays. The only amusement there is the crazy black dog running around chasing pigeons.[/QUOTE]

Once in a while you can find more than pigeons there:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWucgMuOpiM[/url]

[QUOTE=Sangue Bon]Once in a while you can find more than pigeons there:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWucgMuOpiM[/url][/QUOTE]
Lovely boobies. Some nice videos you got on Youtube.

And I mean that:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcC_2mdymyE[/url]

They don't get that I'm taking a video because my video camera doesn't look like a video camera, it looks like a still camera. She is wearing my reading glasses, for some reason she liked them and wore them all night while we went out on the town, she wore them for days. Now everytime I look at my glasses I think of her:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApcxxQjXOLs[/url]

[QUOTE=Sangue Bon]They don't get that I'm taking a video because my video camera doesn't look like a video camera, it looks like a still camera. She is wearing my reading glasses, for some reason she liked them and wore them all night while we went out on the town, she wore them for days. Now everytime I look at my glasses I think of her:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApcxxQjXOLs[/url][/QUOTE]
I have some [b]very hot[/b] videos from the Rio carnival in the early nineties (Hi8), but I guess Youtube wouldn't approve... to much pink flesh.

The Adam and Eve baile in Help, Flamengo baile in Scala and Baile das Panteras in Monte Libano.

(Actually there was another guy filming in those bailes, and on the beach, named Bob... :))

[QUOTE=Sangue Bon]Now everytime I look at my glasses I think of her:[/QUOTE]
Speaking of glasses...
At Remulos, the best strip club in Brazil (Manaus), I was admiring a fabulous stripper who got all the attention of the males in the club. She was just outstanding.

She went down on the stage spreading her legs in front of a very old guy leaning up on the stage with glasses as thick as coke-bottles. She took of his glasses, inserted them deeply in her vagina, pulled them back and forth and then put them back on the old guy.

The old gentleman blinked like an owl, took of his glasses, wiped them gently with a handkerchief and continued to watch the show just as nothing had happened.