Rio is a licorice allsorts sort of place in that there is something for everyone. Even the beach is divided into genres, you can choose to sit with the families, the surfers, the gay couples, the pot smokers or the celebrities. We stayed in the Santa Teresa area which is the arty part of the city. Trams rattle backward and forward, while the shop keepers peddle works of art and large quantities of 'I love Rio t-shirts' the local restaurants make great Caprihrinis and serve even better feijoada, a traditional black bean and pork stew. Rio has an adolescent, pimpled topography and something new is revealed behind each hill. Colonial mansions, churches musueems and art galleries sandwich the favellas. You can take tours of the favellas, but to my mind it seems slightly voyeristic to pay
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