THE FIRST QUICK VISIT OF
MASIE & FRED TO RIO
They arrived for a quick visit ;), this time, on the Winter days of August in Rio ... Pretty hard to find a sunny day or a blue sky, when the winds from Antartida come, this time of the year. Rio State shore is "horizontal" in the map*, and it happens that cold waters from the icy continent are blocked here in this Brasilian State. If you wish to come to Brasil for warm ocean waters, go north of Rio (Espírito Santo State, Bahia State), because Rio waters are cold (even on Summer -- However, once the weather is of high temperatures on Summer, it's, sometimes, pleasant to go into very cold waters ... Anyway, back to Fred and Masie ...).
Once they visited, they wished to walk around. I thought about taking them to visit my grandparents, but it didn't seem exactly what Fred was willing to do, however Masie did get excited about it! :yup:
It occured that, by chance (completely out of plans, specially because it's Winter), a few friends of mine decided to go visit Santa Cruz fort. It's placed in Niterói, the city right in front of Rio, on the other side of the Guanabara bay. I almost forgot to tell Fred I was going, but, before leaving, I looked at them, and Fred looked at me, and he said: "you aren't even conjecturing to leave us behind, are you, lad??!! :hmm:", so, I grabbed them & the camera, and, well, there it came the two pictures below.
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Olivieri76/rio_de_j/fred_n_masie/01santacruz_fort/fred_n_masie_rio001.jpg)
"Come on, Gus! ... I know you're having fun with your friends, but I have to have a picture with the Sugar Loaf!!!"
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Olivieri76/rio_de_j/fred_n_masie/01santacruz_fort/fred_n_masie_rio002.jpg)
& Here, Masie, saying "Oh, what a splendid view, Gus! ... You'll take us up there, when we're back, won't you, on Summer?",
and Fred, admiring the rock, at the other side of the bay.
I'll actually have to take them at Santa Cruz fort again, on Summer, as well ::) But this is a beginning for Fred and Masie in Rio.
*I'd like to provide better maps ... Maybe in the future; for now, you'll find it clicking here (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagem:RiodeJaneiro_MesoMicroMunicip.svg) & here (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagem:Rio-de-Janeiro-Brockhaus-Konversationslexikon-1895.jpg)
(part 4, c)
I wished to take Fred here: Confeitaria Colombo! "The biggest mirrors of Latin America", they are famous for ... (I don't like the term "Latin America", I refer to myself as American and Portuguese American. I'm not merely Latin. I'm Portuguese American ... And American, before anything.) This "Confeitaria" is from the first quarter of the XXth century, if not from the late XIXth ... One can take a nice cup of tea, there, cakes, "croquetes" (German meat cake), sweets and snacks, and, at the second floor, they can have lunch. I'm not in the proper moment for a coffe in my life, but, when I have money enough, I like to go there, at least once a month. All the better, once a week! :)
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Olivieri76/rio_de_j/fred_n_masie/02fred_oldcity/fred_inrio025.jpg)
(Fred was astounded with the mirrors ... "They're big, all right!" :lol: )
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Olivieri76/rio_de_j/fred_n_masie/02fred_oldcity/fred_inrio026.jpg)
"A stroll in Rio,
on a Saturday morning"
End
:blackhair:
Fred & Masie
Rio
Parque das Ruínas, in Santa Tereza neighbourhood, Rio de Janeiro, is an interesting place, not very high, but that allows a good vision of a pretty vast part of central Rio de Janeiro!
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/10422/normal_1004--_fredmasie1sm.jpg)
(One of the famous Carioca rocks, the Sugar Loaf,
Eiffel Tower height, around 300 km.)
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/10422/normal_1004--_fredmasie2sm.jpg)
(Downtown, at the back, the Rio-Niterói bridge.)
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/10422/normal_1004--_fredmasie3sm.jpg)
(The Guanabara bay way in/out from/into the ocean ...
The Portuguese arrived there.)
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/10422/normal_1004--_fredmasie4sm.jpg)