Marouen Bloggin' his Life

After a long journey back from Rio to Tunis with a transit in Sao Paulo and then Milan, I needed a long rest and few real dinners (no comments about Alitalia dinners). Now I’m back to my dear laptop (I call ‘wife’ too) to write about Rio.

Rio was wonderful and charming. The only issue was that it was sunny just the day I arrived and the day I left. This is called bad luck especially when I saw the pictures of my colleagues who managed to have a good afternoon far from the atmosphere of the Internet Governance Forum. Nevertheless, as a group we managed to rent a taxi with a crazy driver (it is a compliment – I’ll dedicate the next post to him) to see what we had to see in Rio even if it was so cloudy that we were almost not able see anything.

We started the tour by going to the botanical garden which should be very beautiful but it was so cloudy and windy with a funny rain that we were not able to see it. Through the clouds we were able to see some buildings and sometimes some beaches. The next step was, a bit higher in Corcovado Mountain, Christ the Redeemer was standing proudly, facing the freezing wind and the shower of rain. The issue is that we were barely able to see him with all the clouds surrounding his huge statue. The Clouds were so low that we were not able to see other than a white landscape all around the place. That place was magic, and not only because it was one of the new seven wonders of the world, but because I can’t confirm if anyone in the group was enough Christian or even just Christian to be welcomed by Jesus himself.

The next day, the plan was to visit Sugar Loaf (Pão de Açúcar) which is also a magic place we under-evaluated at the beginning. After reaching the top, and being enough lucky to be able to see the beaches and even the Christ, we were so happy to take few picture proving that we were there. I think, when it is not cloudy, the view is worth the 25$ (35 R$) we paid. Copacabna beach was also in the plan and we stopped just to have a look at the funny statues of cows in different situations standing all along the pedestrian way. The taxi driver wanted also to point out some elements to make the difference between local girls, tourists and ... girls-like girls 

Rio, I already miss you.