Blisters.

Woke up nice and early today, had to check out of the hostel by 11. luckily I'm allowed to leave my luggage and chill in the hostel until my cab comes later on today.
today I've spent the day exploring a bit more of Brazil, i took a leisurely stroll through the markets in Rio, lots of fruits and veg, as well as people selling trinkets. speaking of trinkets, picked myself up a nice little string pattern bracelet thing, something for the misses yesterday on Copacabana beach.
on a side note, the beaches are gorgeous! the waves are crazy, i tried body surfing with the other dudes i met the other day, i failed. the trick is to go in deep enough so the developing waves pass you, well, I'm too short to go that deep so i was battered continuously being at the point where the waves broke. exhilarating few seconds being dragged under towards the shallows, but very tiring, i had regular breaks. the beaches have tuns of people selling everything from beers, bracelets, blankets to hammocks, get annoying in the end.
if you've been reading then you know i intended to go on a boat party the other day, we all decided against it, it was quite expensive and apparently not very good.
we all went for dinner in Copacabana in a all you can eat meat restaurant, very nice, every imaginable meat! the lamb was a must. afterwards we went back to the beach, it was dark, we had a few drinks at the beach bar, and unfortunately one of the girls in the group had her bag snatched on the beach, we all went back to the hostel afterwards. there's a real vibe around the beach bars in Copacabana, musicians playing, chilled environment.
so back to today, i went to Ipenema beach to get some cool pictures of the mountains, i was successful (see attached pictures) i did this alone today as the group have gone to see the sugar loaf mountains, which I'm waiting till with john to see, as he didn't when he got here.
feet are quite blistered from all the waling and my feet adjusting to the flip flops i bought.
i managed to track down the bus company and have my bus to Campo Grande booked for today at 7, i plan to leave for the bus station in Centro at 5 as its about 30 minuets taxi ride there.
Blog  next from Campo Grande, hopefully the 22 hour bus ride doesn't nacker me out!