Last day visiting Brazil. The port is Santos, Brazil – famous for Pele. I took an excursion through the ship to Sao Paulo, Brazil. The drive through the forest to Sao Paulo was very scenic and included many tunnels and bridges between the mountains. We drove by the Municipal Theater, Catedral sa Se, stopped…
In the morning the weather looked like it would rain all day today, but as soon as I got to shore the weather cleared up and it was a wonderful day. The tour was a bit of a bust, but I continued hiking to a waterfall. I managed to get a few good pictures without…
Arrived in Buzios on time, this is a tendered port, but with the ship not being overly large and not being very full the tendering process was very smooth. I took a tour that drove to a couple of viewpoints and one beach. The one beach was nice, with red/pink sand, some rocks with algae…
The museums in Rio don’t open until noon, and I’ve seen a lot of Rio already. I walked to the bonde station (???? trolley) near the Petrobras HQ to visit Santa Teresa neighborhood in the morning. I took the trolley back, visited Paço Imperial (Imperial Palace) and the Naval museum. No sailaway video today…….
I started the day by packing my bag, checking out of the hotel and storing my bags there. I took the public bus to the Botanical Gardens as it was one of the things open early in the morning. From there I took a bus (almost to CInelandia – because I accidentally typed in…
I started the day by taking the metro to Cinelandia and taking the free walking tour. http://riofreewalkingtour.com/?/passeio/11/downtown_and_lapa_historic_tour The tour was excellent and visited many of the places I wanted to go. We started outside the Municipal Theater and saw the aqueduct in Lapa, the Selaron steps and ended at the…
Arrived in Rio de Janeiro early… In fact I passed through customs, immigration, and an ATM, took a taxi and arrived at my hotel at 0800. The hotel room was as described and looked exactly like the picture. To my surprise it wasn’t raining (unlike the weather forecast that called for rain for…
After working in the morning I drove to the Stockholm Arlanda airport. For those who think my day job is glamorous – I didn’t even get to see anything in Stockholm, not even from the car. Halfway to Stockholm from Finspång it started to snow. Luckily I had plenty of time to arrive to the…