Rio Carnival 2008 - the warm-up!
January 19th 2008 Ten years ago the Rio carnival used to be just for the gringoes - the Tourists swamped the city, the parties were wild and the residents of Rio fled. They fled to their weekend houses, to families by the coast, to quieter cities or the sea. Then travel became so difficult during the carnival period that they became trapped in Rio too.
Then came the resurgence of the Bloco. A bloco is a street s
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