Carnival in Rio..!!
oohh jjeee... this blog has been so so so abandonado for over 2 months now... hhmmm...a short review...?? last year I left Buenos Aires on 14th DEC after 6 great weeks there... then spent X-Mas and New Year in Germany and had a wonderful time there with my family and friends... :)
and now I've already been back in Rio again for a month... time is flying by...!!
y ahora ya esta todo aki carnival y samba, fiestas, musica, blocos, ensaios... y mas CARNIVAL...!! re loco... but todo also a lot of fun...!! :)
have been living with Jesi and Nahuel in Arpoador since I got back to Brazil, and apart de unas cositas con la gente who lived in our Apto antes it's all really great... funny sometimes, when I think back to May last year when Jesi and I had a not so nice argument in Buenos Aires, I would have never thought that one day we'd be really good friends and living together en Rio pasandolo re bien... :)
y bueno... last weekend we all went together with Joaco to Paraty, a nice little Colonial town in between Rio and Sao Paulo... (about 4 hours from here by bus)
very cute little place to spend a weekend...!!
we went into la mata / selva / type of rainforest con las bicis to see the cachoeiras (waterfalls, cascadas)... really nice... and great to get out of Rio for a weekend and spend some time in the nature...!!
took a Schooner cruise to some beaches and islands... and got really sunburned..!! Pobrecito Joaco - he really was the worst off... :(
and then just spent some time en la piscina de nuestra pousada, walking around las calles coloniales de Paraty, on the beaches close by, seeing some local samba bands / groups... really nice weekend... :)
y ahora - como arriba - aqui en Rio ya esta TODO CARNIVAL...!!
everywhere is Samba y fiesta y dancing... yesterday con el bloco SIMPATIA en Ipanema... thousands of people dancing en la avenida na praia... amazing..!! :)
then later last night un concierto de un grupo de Forro... na praia tambien... nniiicceee... :)
also found a new little Salsa place in Ipanema that Ricardo took me to 2 weeks ago when he came over from London and was visiting his family here... nada del otro mundo, but nice enough... ;) faltan solamente unos buenos bailarines...
y bueno, hoy bastante lluvia todo la tarde.. :( pero igual... la escuela de Samba de BEIJA-FLOR was still having su ensaio en la Avenida Atlantica... and great...!! went there with Joaco and another friend Marcelo... and we were dancing 3 hours in the rain con otros locos Brasileiros... jjajaajja... si, got home totally wet... pero igual - was fun...!!
so yeah - the real official Carnival only starts next weekend, but in reality it's already everywhere now... :)
hhhmmm.... there are a lot of people coming to Rio this week to visit and spend carnival here as well... Filip and Mel from Wiesbaden... Miguel y Nacho from Rosario... y JoseLuis from Lima... soooo, I will try to write some more about the Carnival here... just not sure when I'll find time to do so... might be a while... ;)
beijinhos desde la Copacabana... na cidade maravilhosa...
xxxx
posted by Astrid @ 11:27 PM
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