BlondSuzie

Suzie Ford

23 / Female

Worcestershire, England

About BlondSuzie

Budding Member | Member since 8th Jan 09

Citizenship: England
Marital Status: Single

Activity : photos (97) forum (3) guide (0) blog (6) diary (0) trips (1)

Latest Blog Entry

Rio de Janeiro

Posted by BlondSuzie | 8th September 2009

In the end we were in Rio for 3 weeks and loved it! We arrived on the bus from Porto Seguro and went straight to Mellow Yellow - a hostel with mixed reviews but where the guys we had met in Lencois were going to stay so to meet up with them we decided to go there first. They arrived the next day and in true Mellow Yellow style we ended up staying 8 nights!! Ooooops. It was over-priced and pretty grungy, 3-tired bunk beds that made you feel like you were sleeping on the ceiling, and definitely showed its true colours as a mass city hostel for hundreds of people. The bathroom floors were gross and warranted flip-flops all the time, which i constantly forgot then walked around on tip-toes to keep minimum amount of foot in contact with the floor. Ok so it wasn´t that bad, but the funny thing is a lot of people come there as their first stop straight off the plane and think that this is what hostels are like! The pousadas and hostels in Brazil have been nicely surprising, and this was more

Continued | Suzie's Great Adventure....at last!