So after 8 hours of turbulance we landed in Rio De Janeiro. Ive heard all the horror stories about the crime, the poverty etc etc and im here to tell you thats it all a load of........Truth!! This place is not friendly, what do you expect when one of your party is robbed at gunpoint 2 hours after you land in the country.....by the police!!! Yes, you heard me!!
Our hotel luckily has a private beach with machine gun armed guards or else we wouldnt be able to go anywhere as its not really safe to walk around on your own and at least 6 of our party including me has had to change rooms, some up to 4 times for a variety of reasons from no drainage to flooding from the room above to Cockroaches!!! And this is at a Sheraton!! So its equally worrying when you see a hotel named The NO-GO Hotel.
I also have a great view of a Favella, which is one of the many slums in Rio.
The only good part of the trip so far was going up to Carcovado mountain to see the Christ The Redeemer Statue that sits atop the mountain overlooking the city.
I have to say the view is pretty amazing from up there.
You can see the entire city and it looks quite nice from up there. You also get a great view of Sugarloaf mountain which was the site for the cable car chase in the James Bond movie MOONRAKER.
So, here i am sitting backstage before our show in Rio tonight with Juliette And The Licks again before we fly to Sao Paulo tomorrow for the 2nd leg of the TIM Festival with Bjork and Arctic Monkeys also playing and then onward to Argentina next week where i am quite amused to see that on my Work Visa i am named as
An "ILLUMINADOR".
I Like the sound of that, i think it will have to go on all my paperwork from now on.
STEVEN DOUGLAS - ILLUMINADOR
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