http://informage.net/articles/2003/02/19/brazil-nuggets en-us 40 tales from anglospheric la-la-land <p>Yesterday we were sitting having lunch outside Cafe Felice, which incidentally has the best sorvete - ice cream - in Rio. My personal favourite flavour is Cinnamon and Apple - I'd give you the portuguese but I don't recall. "We" is myself and my favourite person Shannon. The food was great. All in all the scenario would have been wonderful if not for the deafening sound and toxic emissions of the garbage truck parked across the street. The silver lining was that this was the first time I'd eaten out in Ipanema and <i>not</i> been able to hear "The Girl from Ipanema". Because of the garbage truck, not the venue's music policy I might add. </p> <p> In other news <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20030211/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_brazil_helmet">a 'carioca' woman was arrested for driving without a crash-helmet</a>. Fair enough you might think, except that she was driving a car. </p> <p> <a href="http://datamage.net/rio/">Photos</a> of my last trip here.</p> Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:05:35 +0000 urn:uuid:5a3c585d66201398b15d1774375a9867 sean http://informage.net/articles/2003/02/19/brazil-nuggets postage http://informage.net/articles/trackback/13