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I went to Meio Mundo last night and it was like the difference between night and day. My friend visiting from Germany wanted to head over there after ArtRio in the restored warehouses near the Praca Maua. I got there about 4:45PM and the place was busier and just kept on getting busier until about 7:00PM or so when a few from the first group of Garotos de Programa started to head out. There were probably 12 clients and 35 GDP at 5:30 or 6:00. The dry sauna was working. The urine smell in the shower room was gone. Lots and lots of new guys. A very few of the ones from a while back. Tops, bottoms, muscular, thin, light and dark skinned. Something for everyone. Prices are still the same. Brasilians pay 50-60. Foreigners pay 80. As I came in a Torontoan was leaving and we chatted a bit in the locker area. He had been quoted 80 and paid that. The boy wanted 150 to cum. He declined. Acyr and Jorge seemed to have signed up for satellite TV so there are a better selection of movies on the tube downstairs.

Most everything Steven writes or posts is articulate and well thought out, and he has a "wicked sense of humor".

I went to Meio Mundo last night with the friend who is visiting me here. Thought it would be nice to report even if I didn't partake The early crowd of boys was almost nonexistent. We got there about 4PM, Maybe 4 or 5 boys and about the same number of clients. Boys started to arrive at about 4:30PM or so. No one very interesting. One guy Enzo from Sampa who normally works at 117. I didn't stay past 5:15PM, At that point, 14 boys and 10 clients. As it was Independence Day here, and almost everything in Centro was closed, I didn't know if it even would be worth sticking around on the chance guys would show up later. The state of the building is not great. One of the 2 client's bathrooms is broken. Dry sauna is out of circulation. And the steam sauna was so weak, I could have fallen asleep inside and my heart problems wouldn't have cropped up. There must be another sewage blockage as the shower area on the first floor smelled like an open urinal. The crew that runs the place is nice. Acyr and Jorge must be too busy with Point.

I have now had the opportunity of using Easy Taxi four times. All when I was in the Zona Norte and there were not either any circling passing taxis nor cooperativo taxi stands. The power center behind Norte Shopping in Cachambi to be precise. It worked like a charm. My biggest fear with the taxis down here as to get in one with a rigged taximetro/meter. Little recourse. Am I really going to get into an argument and risk a fight/bodily injury over 30 Reais/US$8.00? Try to flag down someone from the Guarda Municipal or Policia Militar and waste lots of time filing a protest? I have on a couple of occasions told the taxi driver his meter didn't read right and the trip to the airport should be x number of reais and his meter wasn't correct. And at the airport there are police right there. So he agreed with what I offered and took off QUICKLY with ZERO complaints. But how many foreign travelers who don't speak Portuguese are going to do that? (Let me add that I even complained once after being charged in an elegant restaurant in Geneva Switzerland when simple table water was charged to the bill for EACH glass. I told them I wasn't paying the bill and they could call the police to decide if they didn't want to take the 6 glasses of water off of the bill for the three of us. I won that round. Better to have peace in a restaurant than a raving crazy American tourist screaming in terrible French mixed with English and German for the polizei to come help.) So it seems that both Easy and 99 are great Apps. The taxi drivers still get their clients. The government still gets their taxes. The vehicles still get their inspections. We get taxi drivers who are known and registered with Easy and 99. I still try to find a taxi with a cooperativo decal on the left and right rear quarter panels, But no longer have a rule against getting into one or worry so much about a rigged meter.

Fantastic article. Thanks for posting it.

Yesterday it was very popular the Clube 520. I met the most handsome guy ever and did a brincadeira AT ONCE. 24 y.o, this António is from Italian descent. Grat kisser, vers., very client oriented... too handsome, really, but true!. Nice muscled and hairy body... Delícia!

Thanks for the update! It's too bad how this facility is quickly in a vast decline. When I was last there, which seems like decades (2011), this sauna had undergone a redo; its environs were pleasant, and I truly liked. It would be difficult for me to enter this place under the conditions you cited in your post. Hope they get their act together. A lot of money is coming to Rio de janeiro in 2016. Hope the recession has subsided by that time as well, especially for the Brazilians!

A nice evening in Club 520 (Avda. Senador Souza Naves, 520 -- Curitiba). A very well preserved villa in a residential sector (Cristo Rei), not far from Centro. A guy at the gate to add safety. Across the street there is a taxi stop. The sauna is very good: nice ambience, bar, hot water in the showers, dry and wet sauna well running... There were many people today (a local feast), half clientes (some very attractive) // half garotos: from muscle to regular guys -- from the most handsome I ever have seen (he said he's going to SP) to the quite fadded ones. A muscle guy asked for 200: valeu. A cute guy with a defined body asked for 70: welcome. He was very pleasant in the cabina, too. Greetings Epi

Nice university stripe Oxford shirt and repp tie plus well fitted jacket. Little gay touches of perfection!