In Dezember 2009 the International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM) was held in Brasil.
It was extremly humid and quite a shock when I left the plane. On the drive to the hotel I could already see heavily armed police men. That was also rather irritating I have to admit. The hotel was fine, directly located at the Copacabana.
The conference venue was a military institute right next to the Sugarloaf Montain. The location also featured a small beach, which got us into a bit of trouble on the last day. As it turned out it is fine to leave the institute wearing swimming gear and t-shirt. However, you cannot enter it that way. ;)
All would have been good if I hadn’t been robbed with a knife on my throat on the last day. We made a daytrip to see Corcovada, the montain with the huge Jesus statue. Afterwards, we went swimming at Ipanema beach. On our way back it got dark and not far away from my hotel someone walked up to me, put a knife to my throat and demanded money. They took my backpack and ran off. Unfortunantly, my passport was in that backpack. Therefore, I had to go to the police and report it stolen and contacted the consulate in order to get a temporary passport. Lukily someone found my passport which contained my room key and phoned the hotel. So I was able to get my passport back about an hour before departure from the hotel to the airport was scheduled and leave Brazil.
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