OK OK OK OK.....This is Pao de Acucar, the Sugarloaf with a cablecar en route in the distance.....don't forgot that by the magic of clicking you can make the photos bigger, or is it just it makes them come closer so they look bigger. I don't know. I don't.
.....see, same caption as the previous pic, but closer, or is it bigger? Or you can make it seem closer by making it bigger. Or the other way around. It's not the size that counts, but whether it's closer or not. Or bigger. Jenny Eclair said that all that stuff about size not mattering was crap....if all you can do is rub it around the edges, it's no earthly good to anyone. I'm not sure that we're not at cross purposes here. So I'll stop.
......this pic deserves blowing up.....that sounds weird I know....are we at cross purposes again I wonder. No, on reflection it's a photographic term meaning " to make bigger ", or an ordnance term meaning "to make very very small pieces of ". So, I don't know what any of this blogsite is about anymore. It's really become just holiday snaps of some twat and his lovely daughter ponceing about a third world country, with inane captions that don't make sense.
Sounds good to me. Let's get on......Pao de Acucar is in Urca, which is a very nice and safe area to live.....above is the view across the bay from Urca towards Botafogo and Flamengo.....nice marina too....but not quite so safe to live......
.....and talking of not quite so safe to live, here is Rocinha, Rio's biggest and dodgiest favela......I have to say that my visit to Vidigal in '87 was a very positive experience, but they do have their off days too! It's said that in the '90s the drug gangs just owned outlets in the favelas, but now they own the favelas themselves.....