Barbara was feeling better so we took the shuttle to Copacabana Beach. We wandered along past the hotels, passing the hotel Angie and I stayed in few years back and the Copacabana Palace to a Churrascuria. There we ate our fill of meat. I finished with a cat’s egg! This was a scoop of vanilla ice cream sprinkled with Ovaltine and chocolate sauce. The whole thing was on chocolate fingers. I was expecting Cadbury’s biscuit type fingers, but they were f...

Barbara was still ill, so unfortunately she wasn’t able to come on the trip. Norman, Lynda and I went on a private trip to Petropolis, the old imperial capital of Brazil. After meeting our guide Daniel, we got in his car and drove to Petropolis. After driving through Rio, past some favelas, we entered the foothills and drove up through spectacular scenery to Petropolis. Our first stop was Quintandinha Palace. An old hotel and casino that was built ...