Riobard

I was near the Providence Hill favela today in Gamboa, probably the oldest in Rio. There has been a gondola car running for a few years. Controversial as to its benefit to the morro community. It is in two sections. The trees in the later pics are in the English cemetery to the right where, among the buried, are English Brazilians who died in 20th century warfare fighting for England. The hole-in-the-wall salon adjacent to the clothing loja advertises on the chalkboard sidewalk sign hairstyle, mani, pedi, massage, and ... you guessed it ... botox treatment. The yellow R is my location area. The climate this time of year is ab fab outstanding.

Sorry for the delay ... I need to get this started, so I will begin by outlining the programas at Lagoa, before I forget them all. Last Wed a primer whose name I forget (he is forgettable; Henry maybe?), followed by Mattheus??Matheus? who ads as Thiago Rosa locally. Fri, Denis, from Ceara, followed by Falco(n) longtime 117 muscle bear. Sun, Fagner from Niteroi who does not do the Rio brothels. I will have to flesh these out later due to an appointment now.

This one was at Lagoa ... I had seen his pics on other sites as well. I am just now making the connection. Hot as fcuk but a real 'playa'. A "heva" needing to be put in his place. I will expand in my recent SP thread. Not a guy IMHO to book privately. Better in a curated secure setting. Boytoy.br a creative name. There's much overlap these ads and the many other sites.

This could mean new blood fresh faces, right? That is what I am after the next few weeks. I usually play one hour per, so may spill over to Hotel Alameda ... same room price for that period ... in fact, Alameda technically comes to 10 reais per half hour and much nicer facility. You just have to lure them there across the street. Or my apartment 10 minutes away. But only guys I have initially done in the more secure setting. I have barely dented my play budget the first week here.

Erratum: Botafogo (not Botogogo).

Tonight Pnt202. Jacqueline and Junior at desk. I stayed 17-20:00 and had a drink (me and the GP) and a full-hour programa. It was quite full and many ordinary-ish working fellows milling around but not looking like they were getting much business. Felipe Panda, attractive mature gogo on the circuit, now wears a massage-service T. I may try it out another time and test the boundaries, though I am not particularly strongly inclined to revisit 202. I know my guy from a few years back at 117, including fb profile, and a very dazed-looking and ecstatic friend staggered back to the bar following an overwhelming but very hot session with him a while back. Piqued my curiosity, so why not give it a go. His fitness is boxing at a gym near mine. Street-looking, shaved head to toe, heavy-lidded dark bedroom eyes, mainly Euro some Afro admixture. Gorgeous compact bod, silky skin. Straight Power-top, affectionate and kisses enjoyably. Intuitive and makes everything go smoothly. I was a liitle soused and relaxed on a half-finished caipirinha. (David A makes 'em strong.) I was considerably sated getting off on this guy. BTW barkeep David adding bulk and looking pretty friggin' delicious. Good thing my program fellow was there. Said hello to a few other regulars but I would not likely have hired them. House damage 116.00 ---- Metro stalled before and at Botafogo. I hopped off for some kilo grub at Praia Botogogo Shopping, and a small Bacio di Latte gelato treat. Then headed north home. --- Transit updates: I have been using a Health ID photo/dob card with no problem, leaving passport at home. Also, I noticed the Cinelandia outdoor VLT lightrail transit platform now has a scanner to check prepaid card balance, so do not have to wait in line to check it unless adding purchased value to the card. I have a substantial unneeded credit balance. Maybe it will serve as legal tender for a street hottie one of these days. Boa noite!

Some displays at the Cidade do Samba carnival prep complex in Gamboa today ... and a typical quaint snack wagon

Hahaha, tongue and cheek, both non-veg and mostly non-periodic.

Oh, and did I mention that most of the upper-tier guys at Lagoa were visiting from Rio?!!!!! Many of you would recognize them. And if the pics are accurate, several beauties advertising on Grindr. And then there are the acompanhante sites. I would need to develop more patience and organization to go those routes.

And yes, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. A horse and a bicycle are staring each other down.

Paraty morning low-tide and street scenes ... some have less light than I'd have preferred.

Moreover, @davet, I just finished a few visits to Lagoa (did not try Fragata this round). Busy, busy, busy, long holiday wkend, but What a letdown in terms of choice of garotos. I am going to write a longer review in my thread. At least 75% of the working guys were less attractive than the bottom 10% at most Rio venues. How the hell did their résumes pass muster is what I wanna know. I had a fun time because there were always one or two "good enough" programas. But the challenge was finding, not choosing. If those guys had not shown I'd have been muito muito pissed off. They would also have been second string elsewhere. I would be embarrassed to promote this place as a bonanza of a stud candy shop for old fags like me with moderate affluenza. São Paulo is simply not going to work for me unless there is a way for premium guys to know when someone willing to appreciatively spend some real money is in town and scheduled to hit the brothel(s). Don't be fooled ... sometimes 25 bucks gets you but this:

Cute two-room and ensuite bath upper floor suite in Paraty at a pousada, Villa del Sol ... excellent breakfast. R$170. Can't get over these prices.

What a small world! I was walking the short block to my regular kilo place minutes ago, which incidentally has fallen on hard times, I suppose, at it is finished. This is in the middle of nowhere in Catete. But I bump into Victor (!!!) in an orange T, not his usual club white, ask him what I already know [how are things at PNT202], and he told me about the where and what of his current employment around the corner towards the Flamengo shore area. He was evidently leaving work. This is using my broken Sportuguese. He perhaps did not know how to place me other than my mentioning the massage features at PNT. But a cutie like him must have to adjust to being known by hordes of visitors as a popular Venezuelan lad about town.

Hahahaha ... I am going to play Diva and ask for more compensation for that info. After all, one of the guys played Heva, as in straight full-of-himself pissy 'tude about the choreographic sidedishes he wanted xtra cash for. This theme has been also mentioned by the erstwhile @sanddunes a while back. But actually I am stalling because I would not characterize it as having been "stud heaven". Need to pick and choose my words carefully. Some board members may have been alternating full layout and reverse pike position backflips at the sight of the merchandize had they been there. One must be sensitive and judicious, no?

I will post some Paraty pics soon. But the excitement today was going into Rio by bus. About 45 minutes out, the bus stopped, the driver quickly said something and everybody started lying down on the floor out of line of the windows. Must have been an alert related to some action between the good guys and bad guys. After about 15 minutes the bus carried on and we all got back into our seats. The trip was 4.75 hours, about 75 reais. Beautiful scenery combining the Serra do Mar rainforested range and the jagged coastline down below with seemingly endless coves and offshore islets.

I take it back ... I did have a room one occasion last week for 15. It is also on my tab photo above. It had linens. Maybe it was a special rate that night. The point is that the 15 price room that night was just as functional for my needs as was the 55 room the same night!

Oh, OK ... actually in retrosepect I did not use these and they were 30 on a Sunday ... I don't know about Fri/Sat. I think they were free one day ... I cannot keep up and I give up on accuracy

PS: on the first tab, notice I took a 55 value room when a 15 room without shower would have been perfectly adequate. In fact, the weather was cold and the more expensive room was chillier due to a window.

Examples of valor tally at Lagoa ... I post these because the room prices are confusing and seem to change with each day of the week, notwithstanding Specials. That is, any two days where you would expect the same rates might actually be different. I only thought to capture the price poster on the last day. Also, the prices now include (or, in contrast to other clubs, now include) differentiation between 30 and 60 minutes. On the last day, 60% of room options were for the full hour! None of this is clearly delineated on the website. I don't know how the time frames translate into Garoto paycheques. I got a little fed up on trying to tie the two variables together. I did some of both room temporal lengths. None of the guys mentioned that they should be compensated more for longer duration, even though they witnessed me pointing to the relevant option on the poster when acquiring the key ... they did not "watch the clock" or quibble.

I decided to pass on the frango pastel and duck à l'orange after observing these cutenesses at one of the rest stops along the way.

Bus to Paraty, 7.5 hours including two 25 minute snack breaks, a little bit of construction delay, slower and winding but pretty views once reaching the coastal mountains. R$85. Best to sit on the right side for views (departing SP). Apparently getting to Rio will be much faster. These flip-down calf rests are new to me. The fellow across the aisle reps the incline fairly well.

Wellington at Clube 117 knows what he is doing. I have a spasm-prone dorsum, so somewhat of an aficionado. If his # is still active, I have +55(21)997694651 (Whatsapp). He was (and is?) also able to accommodate outcalls with a portable table.

Thanks for the catch ... yes, you are correct; GRU. And the Über was essentially only two American bits per minute. To add, I got on at Paulista Metro recently where the Yellow and Green line intersect. Without hauling baggage it took at least 10 minutes to get to the Green track platform ... it seemed endless. Depending on the street entrance location, sometimes these line transfers can be daunting. In contrast, zipping up the Blue line,with luggage, from Santa Cruz to the Rodoviaria at Portuguesa-Tiete was a cinch. BTW, Not that it would likely be of much use to us, but Line 5 (Lilac) is being extended to Santa Cruz. The station is already cray-cray congested ... swarms of human automotons to mow you down against your direction.

One cannot always rely on the axiom "A picture is worth a thousand words."