Flying into Rio, one sees a sprawling city on the Atlantic coast surrounded by rocky mountain peaks. The population is about 7 million. It has many major Brazilian companies and was the former capital of Brazil for nearly two centuries during the Portuguese colonial era .
We stayed at the end of Copacabana beach with views across the Atlantic to Sugarloaf Mountain
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| By Day |
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| By Night - the beachfront and street is floodlit all night |
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| Rose enjoying a Pina Colada at the hotel |
If I give the impression that people in Rio know how to eat, you are not mistaken! Lunch the next day was at a local restaurant in the city, called Columbo, which featured amazing dishes both amazing buffet lunch and desserts.
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| A colonial street in downtown Rio |
Dinner at Porcao
This was an amazing restaurant in Rio called a churrascaria (Brazilian barbecue steakhouse) where they served different meats to guests by carving the roasts off a metal skewer. And you can have all you can eat. Amazing .... wish I had not eaten breakfast or lunch before going there!
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| Anyone for seconds? |
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| Carved off the skewer onto the plate |
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| Other meat dishes and salads were all available |
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| In the kitchen - all meats are charcoal grilled |
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| Unusual light fittings too! |
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