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Feb 08
2010
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After 10 days in Rio and a week staying in Copacabana, I finally managed to make the two minute walk to the beach. It wasnt easy.
Firstly there was the excellent pagode going on on a table outside the bar on the corner. All the better for not being amplified - most pagodes here a ruined by appaling amplifiction. And the Mandolin player and the singing were actually in tune! But no - on to the beach.
30 seconds later and across avenida atlantica - and half way across this multi lane highway running along the beach there was the samba school Alegria da Zona Sul, getting ready for a parade down the beach. BUT NO!!! - on to the beach.
MADE IT TO THE BEACH!!
And then I heard a marchina approaching from the distance - the old style of carnival band more like a march than a samba, with great sing - along songs and a totally lunatic horn section. Then they tell me hat the samba school Beija Flor is parading along Copacabana a little later. But I REALLY need to get a tan and stop looking so much like a tourist.
So after an hour or so on the beach, have to leave to make it to the Salgueiro technical rehearsal. And theres Alegria da Zona Sul, still getting ready to parade. And I know that if I stay there will be friends in the bateria, though I don´t know which ones. Buy I have to get to Salgueiro.
Will try to make it to the beach again today, but as you can see it takes a lot of willpower to stick to any plan in Rio this near to carnaval.
