Ahhh, today was niiiiice. We went to bed stupidly early last night (turned down the house party for bed...wild stuff out here. Not!) but it meant we could get up early and hit the beach because it was SUNNYYYYYYYYYYY, hurray!! Totally made the most of it (appear to have got a tad burnt again - darnit!)
That really wasn't too cultural, but we did get interesting, honest! After lunch (of yummy cheese doughballs, good stuff!) we managed to get over to Niteroi - a nice stretch of land on the other side of the bay which you can reach by a huge road bridge or by boat. We went for the boat option (pretty difficult to locate, so had to ask a few locals about buses. Very proud!) It was lush on the boat, nice and shady and good views etc.
Our reason for going to Niteroi was a modern art museum inside a crazy space-ship-shaped building designed by Niemeyer (sp?!). Very interesting - check out the photos. Was totally captivated by one painting of a little boy. His eyes were absolutely amazing, it was so difficult to look away. I actually had to go back to have another look!!
We had a little wonder down to the beach there which was nearly deserted. The sand was lovely, but as with all of the beaches in the bay, the sea was a disgusting green-brown colour and as we don't fancy any Cholera etc, we gave swimming a miss!!
Got back from Niteroi pretty late and havn't really done much. Cooked an AWESOME cheese and fried ham omelette (to follow on from my kick ass Ratatouille yesterday - masterchef in the making!) and are just chilling out tonight. There seems to be a street band setting up right at the bottom of our hill. But bottom of hill means getting back to top of hill.... Hmmmmm!
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