Sitting on a terrace in Santa Teresa
Italianate houses in Santa Teresa
Pat's brilliant snapshot of the tram as it whizzed past
The local samba band?Video showing Rio from Santa Teresa
Well! What a week we’ve had! In fact, it’s been 10 days since we last saw the sun. We can honestly testify that Rio rain is wet.
Ducking out of the rain one day, we ventured to the museum designed by Oscar Niemeyer that is shaped like a teacup. Pat celebrated the break in the rain with a photo of Ray in front of the teacup. Inside was an exhibition of Niemeyer’s architectural achievements. He is now 101 years old and has 5 projects on the go around the world. Another man who doesn’t seem to want to retire!
Although it was raining in Niteroi, we took advantage of a break in the rain over in Rio and drove to Santa Teresa – a picturesque, hillside area made notorious when Ronny Biggs decided to live there. It is served by old trams and affords spectacular views over the city (video and other photos above). We found an excellent restaurant and were entertained by a samba band outside.
We are off to Vitoria for a week in search of better weather and arrived yesterday … to sunshine!!
And we are staying in a hotel … so neither of us are doing any housework.
4 comments:
Hi both, you seem to be enjoying yourselves.
We have been looking at your travels over these last weeks from rainy Brum and are so pleased we have a view of what's going on in your life.
Loads of love and best wishes keep those blogs going.
Rose and Alan
Love the photos - so many memories to enjoy in the future and lots more to come!
Lovely weather here yesterday but, guess what, rain again today.
Love from Sheffield!
Ann & Keith
In Sheffield, it didn't rain today. It wasn't windy either.
It didn't rain yesterday. Nor was it windy.
In fact it was quite fine. I went for a cycle ride up to Foxhouse.
They say it will not rain tomorrow. Nor will it be windy.
I would like to go for a cycle ride tomorrow. But I will not. Not because of the weather. But because I will have to go to work.
Finally decided to to see yr blog & by what i see you are having a splashing time.I see there's lots of bens in yr family,must be careful when stating the name & place him in the right 'slot'.
Received yr mail,just red it (haven't gone into my mail for some time!)will answer you separately.
Keep on travelling.
Alberto.
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