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While boarding the plane at ORD, there was a woman seated and bending down - revealing her g-string - just the tiniest string between her butt cheeks connected with a little metal ornament to the strings around her waist. That got me in the mood for Rio - she certainly was not from Chicago.

In a way it's a good thing, Chicago, in the winter especially, is not conducive to horniness. Rio, however...

The tragedy is that I forgot my phone -- the one I was so proud of that I would get the SIM chip for Brazil - back at home (I was going to do that right before I left). That will make it tough to call Lou's favored escort service; I will have to go my traditional terma route. However, the weather seems to be good in Rio, unlike when I was there in August, so maybe whore beach is a possibility. I wonder how that will be affected by HELPless - ness.

Well I got a rude shock at LUomo last night - not only have they raised the cost for a cabine to R$240 (from 210, and from 180 recently), but they have removed the dining area and made another bar like area.
so no more free dinner. I had not planned on that and was starving.

The garotas are Ok, but nothing special. The tall mulata with excellent English, Sheila, was there. I mentioned Myles to her. She wants you to come back - well that´s up to you.

My main point is that if you do the math, it is actually a better deal in Berlin than in Rio.

Artemis: 80 euro entry, 60 euro per shag; I spend 200, which at 1.4 $/euro (actually better now) is $280
unlimited soft drinks, no buying shit for the girls, delicous German food until quite late.

LUomo: hard to split up charges, but pretty much impossible to spend less than R$510, which at 1.8 BRL/USD is about 280, but the rate is currently worse than that, but I spent R$530. I got the entry discoutn for arriving by 7pm, but then no food.

Plus, 60 euro for shag #3, but over 200 reais (discount for #3)

Plus, in Berlin, you have zero chance of getting robbed, or credit card fraud, excellent safe transit 24 h.

The clubs in western Germany where there is more competiton charge 50 euro entry only, although I have no personal experience as to quality.

So my point is, not that you should necessarily run off to Germany, but Rio is just not cost effective anymore.

during the week, I am going to go to Centro, but I doubt that there are any great bargains there