Date: 29 Apr 2011 Friday
23:15 PM Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 3
Waiting for our 00:40 AM flight…
On board SQ68
The flight from Singapore to Sao Paulo via Barcelona is 26 hrs 15 mins, one of the longest flight we ever took.
Stirfried beef and vegetables in oriental black pepper sauce with steamed rice
Catalan Chicken wiht Spanish sauce
Ferrero Rocher
Poached eggs with Hollandaise sauce, chicken sausage, grilled tomato and potatoes with fruit yoghurt
Fried noodles with char siew style roast pork, vegetables and mushroom
Transiting at Barcelona.
Panfried hake fish with green salsa, boiled potatoes and piquillo peppers
Ice cream!
Light bites – Apple!
And my favourite tomato juice.
Chinese braised beef with daikon and carrots, stiredfried vegetables and steamed rice
Stewed chicken pepitoria – Spanish style stewed chicken in almond and boiled egg sauce served with grilled vegetables and fragrant rice
16:30 PM São Paulo Guarulhos International Airport (GRU)
Checking in to TAM Airlines.
Queuing up the boarding gate. We got onto a bus which brought us to the aircraft.
It was my first time climbing up the stairs into the aircraft
Inflight meal – A butter toffee!
18:40 PM Rio de janeiro Galeão International AirportÂ
The flight to Rio de janeiro took less than an hour. We exchanged some Brazilian Real with our USD at the airport.
19:30 PM Hotel Novo Mundo
Finally arrived at our destination after 30 hours of traveling from Singapore.
Our simple but expensive room in Rio.
The toilet
Pack of tissue instead of box tissue!!!
20:15 PM Dinner @ Big Nectar
We found a dining place about a street behind our hotel. It took us some time to order our food as most Brazilians do not understand English.
Fruit juices
Bacon pizza
Green salad
Fish Fillet Rice & Fries
The first thing that we noticed was that Brazil food is extremely salty! We couldn’t finish the whole meal but at least we satisfied our hungry stomachs.
