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23rd February 2007 - Day 328
Headed off from our hostel in Foz to catch our 22 hour bus to Rio with plenty of time to kill - or so we thought!! Had to first wait half an hour for the bus to the bus terminal, then got to the ticket office to pick up of bus ticket but........
we were told that we couldn't pick up the tickets....... until we were officially stamped into Brazil at one of the border controls, as you may remember our friendly bus driver drove straight through the border control yesterday without stopping!!! So major panic ... had to catch the first taxi rushing across town to the Paraguay border control with half an hour before our bus was due to leave!!!! Anyway got a taxi and a stamp, which by the way must happen a lot because the taxi driver knew exactly what was going on!!! Missed the bus by 10 mins so had to wait 6 hours for the next bus in the sweaty oven of a station - fun!!!
Had time to finish updating the website backlog .... i made a very very expensive phone call home ... note to self only say hello to family and goodbye very shortly after!!!
Caught the bus, decided not a flash as the Argentina buses.. no leather seats or TV.
Eventful bus trip followed ... 10:00 french girl got left behind... 11:00 got told we had to wait for her for god knows how long ... 11:01 passengers got very annoyed as did i we!! French girls so called friend slept through the whole heated situation. 12:00 Set off 1 hour later without the missing French girl... slept through the night... woke up when said French girl reappeared at about 8:00 in the morning. Both got sick from dodgy fast food joint that bus stopped at 11:00. Arrived at Rio late, wonder why. We miss Argentina already!!
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