Casa da Carmen e do Fernando
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We made it to Rio
After a slight delay at Heathrow as they de-iced the wings for take-off at midday, we had a largely uneventful 12 hour flight until the sensors detected someone smoking in the loos. Our Cabin Sevice Director got, quite rightly, very shirty threatening criminal proceedings against the culprit - who would be watched for further transgressions - you …
Oi Oi from Rio!
... br> We've spent time strolling along the famous Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. Brazilian beach-wear for both men and women leaves very little to the imagination! Most people wear very little! And as its only 2 minutes from the beach to the high street, people just come straight off the beach into the shops bars and restaurants wearing whatever they were sunbathing in, with maybe a t-shirt over the top. People line the beach just to people watch. We saw ...
The Big City
... a bit pointless and wasteful.
Day Twenty Two - Friday 28th September 2012
We ticked off the main tourist sites, visiting the corcovado, where there is a large statue of someone called Cristo Redentor, before going up Pao de Acucar (Sugar Loaf Mountain). We were lucky with the weather and had spectacular views from both. That evening we ate at a salad restaurant, a welcome change from all the meat we'd been eating lately, before walking to Leblon for a Friday night ...
Rocking Rio and the Itacare dream.
... br> BUT
some of the rio residents grind you down... The immaturity of a soccer game loss (or a win for that matter), the childish dash for seats as a subway train door opens up and fat dudes on the bus watching on as old/pregnant/disabled people cling on for dear life rankles and when you go to check out "the oldest continually operating rail track in South America" only to find it broke down in 2010 and hasn't been fixed you can only scratch ...
From Rio With Love
... with the falls. The waterfalls are the widest in the world, covering a distance of almost three kilometers, all from the Iguazu River. With the volume of water rushing over the precipices, the noise is almost deafening. And the spectacle is just that - spectacular. We walk along the upper trail which provides wonderful views of various sections of the falls. Then we take the small train so we can walk about 500 meters to the viewpoint of the ...
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