Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Two Rios
This is pre-posted in green and yellow, Brazil's national colors. Wednesday I rise at 4:45am (ouch!) to catch a 7am plane to Rio for a day of meetings, then 'home' to Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiro has many faces, but here I depict but two...
First, the Rio I'll mostly see tomorrow: The Borg-like modernist behemoth that houses Petrobras, the national oil company; to the left of this picture you see half of Rio's cylindrical Metropolitan Cathedral..
The Rio I'll glance in passing: Botafogo beach....I have one meeting on this lovely strip, which faces Pao de Açucar (Sugar Loaf Mountain) and has rear-window view of Corcovado (Christ the Redeemer)...
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