Parks and recreation

Last weekend we went to check out the Museum of Modern Art. The collection was pretty disappointing, but it was great to get strolling around galleries again. It's beside the Parque do Flamengo, a huge landfill project that was completed in the 60s designed in part by Roberto Burle Marx, whose name appears to crop up every time a park or a garden is mentioned around here. He's got his green fingers in a lot of, like, design pies or something. It's a good place to catch excellent views of the Sugar Loaf mountain and Jeebas and it's not too far from here either, just one stop on the tube. I need to explore it properly though. It's pretty big. A bike would be the best idea methinks. I reckon we'll probably rent some out for a few days to see whether we'd actually use them much, or whether they'd go straight into the cupboard with the skateboards and the ouija board. Lots of boards there.

I've also started training in the important craft of caiprinha making. The first time I tasted one was in London a couple of years back and it really was pretty horrible. It was made with no love, and it tasted like cold piss on a winter's night. Thankfully it didn't put me off; I've acquired the proper taste recently.

Wednesday was football day. It was similar to last week in that I wasn't really sure what people were shouting most of the time, but it was a lot of fun. They really do argue a lot with each other; lots of blaming each other for conceding goals, misplaced passes, contentious free kicks and the like. I only played a couple of games though, there were a lot of people there and I don't fully understand the system yet; who can play when, and so on. Goals McGuigan did make an appearance at the very beginning though, to signal his intent.

There was a barbecue immediately after the game as well, so we had some beers and lots of meat, which was pretty sweeeee eeeeee eeee e eeeet. I could get used to that.....

Yesterday we took a trip into the city centre to see a lawyer about the process for civil partnerships here. There's a fair bit of paperwork to be done, but we made a start anyway. Watch this space, I suppose....there could be a party fairly soon....