Sugarloaf Mountain, entering Rio
Sunrise, entering Rio.
Just a quick note from our day out in Rio. Today, we were joined by Dave and Jill a very nice couple from Minnesota and Palm Springs CA, (summer/winter quarters). We took a ‘free’ H. Stern, (a jeweler who thought we might buy from him!!), cab to Corcovado and went up to the statue of Christ the Redeemer on the small train that carries you there. It was very hot and we did not linger long there. The view was, as usual, spectacular with too much haze.
Statue of Christ the Redeemer, Corcovado mountain, Rio
Then we descended by the same train and took a cab to Ipanema. There we checked out the beach and thought it was about lunch time. We found, quite by accident a cafe called A Garota de Ipanema, which is the cafe in which Antonio Carlos Joabim wrote the song “The Girl from Ipanema” The cafe was not too spectacular but the T-shirt will be a conversation piece!
The words of the song “The Girl from Ipanema” by Antonio Carlos Joabim.
The cafe ‘A Garota….’
After lunch we decided that the heat had got the better of us and retired back to the ship to shower and start packing.
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