Her Name is Rio and She Dances on the Sand - May 2011

The tram to our humble abode on the hillside in Santa Teresa.

Not quite the image of the 'Girl from Ipanema' they had in mind when they wrote the song, but hey-ho.

And definitely not this white faced girl either!

Although we are coming to live here, we had to do some touristy things. Our trip to the top of Pao do Acucar, Copacabana in the background. 

A secret squirrel lunch.

At the Copa, Copacabana...(yes, I know it's not the one in the song).
Sir Paul McCartney played two nights in Rio - we just happened to be on Copacabana Beach when he left his hotel for the airport. We saw him waving from his posh car. That may be a misleading comment. We did see his arm waving, but we didn't see his face...

This is the beautiful hostel we are staying in, built by a famous Brazilian, feminist writer, Julia Lopez D'Almeida. 

  

This is the gorgeous breakfast room and the comfy white sofa we spend our evenings on.



We visited our new school today, to meet the bosses (extremely nice) and to have a look around. I won't put lots of photos on the blog, but just as a taster, this is the swimming pool. It also had a carved water melon in the dining room, which I was very impressed with!