Rio, baby!

For you poor souls out there who have not yet visited the unfairly beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro, now is the time to start making friends there. This is a exercise long overdue for most Europeans at least, who commonly know more people in Sydney than in all of Latin America.
So don’t hook up only because you will need a couch to crash on during the 2016 Olympics, but because Brazilians in general deserve more friends. They’ve had an undeservedly bad reputation as half-naked thieves for far too long, especially the ones in Rio. And they live in what is by far the most beautiful city in the world, if you ask me.
I know the games are six years away, but if you start fishing in 2015 all the good couches will be taken. Happy hunting!

P.S. And learn some Portuguese. They will love you for it.