Today we had a walk around Copacabana and Ipenema, the beaches and the shops. Sal found several shoe shops, then on our way back we decided to go into one of the tiny cafe-bars down a little side street and try our luck with our minimal portugese. I managed to order a couple of beers, then we spotted cachaça in a beaten up wooden barrel fixed to the bar. At only $R1/shot we couldn´t resist! It tasted kind of like tequila, I actually found it wasn´t too bad but it went right to our heads..... the guy behind the bar was really cool and despite an almost total language barrier, we managed to have a laugh with him.

Sal´s gone to get an early night so I´m going to try and find out more info about the border crossing between Brazil and Peru.  ¶ 5:23 PM