{"id":490,"date":"2006-07-10T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-04-01T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:36:20","slug":"11-july-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/2006\/07\/10\/11-july-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"11 july &#8211; tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived Rio at 5:30am, it was dark and the city slept as I was doing<br \/>in the &#8220;leito&#8221; of the bus more comfortable than any economic class of<br \/>a long carrier flight.<\/p>\n<p>The fear deposited on me about Rio made me wait until daylight showed<br \/>people faces. The idea was to get a bus to the center and get in a<br \/>typical tram (&#8220;bonde&#8221;)<br \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rio.rj.gov.br\/riotur\/pt\/atracao\/?CodAtr=1410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.rio.rj.gov.br\/riotur\/pt\/atracao\/?CodAtr=1410<\/a>) to my friend<br \/>house. I got out too late and instead of taking a bus back I wanted my<br \/>legs to feel the size of the city. It was 7am anyway. Two hours later,<br \/>coffee, food and a juice of another unknown fruit at a coffee shop of<br \/>a portuguese man in the stomach I arrived to the &#8220;bonde&#8221; line in Sta.<br \/>Teresa district. Tired and 2km still far from the house. I waited for<br \/>the old, crazy, marvelous tram which was going in the opposite<br \/>direction but with the direction I wanted in the top-front. Trip back<br \/>and forth and I arrived to gustavo and Jose place where Jose mother<br \/>and a friend were as well.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a favela again &#8211; just heard some gun shots minutes ago &#8211;<br \/>and maracan\u00e3 stadium in the view, the appart is in the floor -2 but as<br \/>its a hill there is a good view. Drafted some plans for the next days<br \/>and for the first time in this trio I went alone around (Brana, adorei<br \/>sua companhia!, que saudade). city center, many little, little<br \/>museums, a mix of buildings, a 4 euro wrist watch bought, moved to<br \/>street shopping area (Saara district), loved the city at that moment,<br \/>wanted to live here, if the city was not so huge. I ate in a 1st floor<br \/>restaurant for 2 euro where the rice and beans sauce were to share,<br \/>only the meat was individual. I took a boat and Niteroi here we go for<br \/>the museum of contemporary art<br \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richschwarz.com\/thesixthday\/awakenings\/rio\/Niteroi.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.richschwarz.com\/thesixthday\/awakenings\/rio\/Niteroi.asp<\/a>). a<br \/>30 minute walk still to arrive there and my pain when they said it was<br \/>closed for changing some lights. It broke my day. 30 minutes back.<br \/>Boat ride back. Decided to go to Modern Art Museum, 1 hour for visit<br \/>only. But wrong bus taken and I end up in Leblon and Ipanema beach<br \/>district (like 10km further that I wanted). Unfortunately there was no<br \/>more sun and few people in the beach. Beaches which are very similar<br \/>to the portuguese ones, appart for having beach volley and football<br \/>schools until late night (with lights, of course).<\/p>\n<p>Tired to write but still to tell the fear of &#8216;cariocas&#8217; in the<br \/>&#8220;m\u00eatro&#8221;. The sleep in the theater show later in the evening. And<br \/>thoughts during the &#8220;day&#8221;: that Rio is like Seul in amount of people<br \/>and shops. Like Palermo in amazing hided churches. and a huge bridge<br \/>like in Lisbon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived Rio at 5:30am, it was dark and the city slept as I was doingin the &#8220;leito&#8221; of the bus more comfortable than any economic class ofa long carrier flight. The fear deposited on me about Rio made me wait until daylight showedpeople faces. The idea was to get a bus to the center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-viver-o-brasil-2006","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}