room tidy and clean. Close to downtown area. There are some mongrels in the vicinity of the house, homeless people. Kitchen silverware dirty. Bugs in the kitchen. Don't leave your food lying around. Take it to your room. The bugs ate their way through a paper bag with croissants in it and ate part of one. We could not find any sugar or sweetener in the kitchen. The hosts were away on a trip. Better bring your own sugar. I guess they are diabetics. They should have warned us about the lack of sugar.
The husband, Mr. Jim, told me that Brazil is unsafe, unlike Canada. The neighborhood has lots of homeless people. It is true, Brazil is riddled with street crime. But, as a host, he shouldn't have said that.