Copacobana

 

 

    

We were staying in cocacobana.  Rio is absolutely enormous spreading out in all directions.  

We didn’t really explore elsewhere other than cocacobana, which is a city in itself.  

The beach is incredible, very sandy for literally miles.  The boys played for hours in the waves.  

There were red danger signs everywhere with massive waves but that didn’t stop us nor the 

hundreds of others playing in the sea.  It was quite scary.  I went a little deeper to swim 

properly and quickly realised it was very hard going to get back.  It is known for its 

dangerous rip tides.  We all got knocked over and sucked under by the waves in the 

shallows resulting in grazed knees.  

Rio is so full of energy and diversity.  All shapes, sizes, ages, colours and creeds of 

people hang out at the beach.  The one thing everyone has in common is how little 

clothing is worn 😉 miniature bikinis for every type of woman.  

It felt a lot safer than I expected the peddler offering rolly marijuana or cocaine 

was very polite 😂.  

Off to Buenos Aires now. 

Mary