In the weeks before I flew to Rio, my phone felt like a rolling feed of doom.
“Be SO careful.”
“Don’t take your phone out.”
“My friend’s cousin got robbed there.”
“Are you sure about this?”
A good friend of mine who’d lived in Brazil some years ago, even warned me ‘if someone robs you, give your bag straight away, as there’s likely to be a guy with a gun round the corner’.
Ok then….😳
Google wasn’t helping either. Every travel forum had a horror story, and every blog post came with a safety warning longer than the article itself.
It reminded me of one of my favourite bits in the movie Armageddon when Truman describes the asteroid..
Okay, so the scariest environment imaginable. Thanks. That’s all you gotta say, scariest environment imaginable.”
Oscar (Owen Wilson) - Armageddon:
I’m not going to lie, I was pretty darn anxious, and by the time I boarded the plane, I’d half convinced myself I was flying into an urban warzone.
And then I landed….
